The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not a floating island that can simply be scooped out of the sea. It is a vast plastic soup ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

Plastic is funneling into our oceans, but a boat is helping collect and consume trash before it even hits the sea.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Researchers have been visiting locations in ...

MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (AP) — Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land ...

A plane has discovered that the great Pacific garbage patch is much bigger than had been thought. We recognize our responsibility to use data and technology for good. We may use or share your data ...