At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now holds tens of thousands of tons of plastic pieces, along with dozens of species that call ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An astonishing marine fungus eating away at debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is providing hope as a natural solution to a ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, inside the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, debris drifts into a broad ...
Huge islands of floating plastic in the Pacific have spawned a bizarre new ecosystem where coastal creatures are breeding in ...
The Ocean Cleanup employs advanced technologies to tackle plastic pollution, targeting the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and ...
Does nature have to do everything itself? An international cohort of marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash suspended in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as ...
A study published today in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that centimetre-sized plastic fragments are increasing much faster than larger floating plastics in the North ...