The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

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.

Recent research on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is reshaping how scientists and the public understand ocean pollution. Long viewed simply as a floating mass of waste, the patch is now found to ...

As plastic tumbles against itself, it fragments, and a new study shows those fragments don't stay in the water.

For years, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was described primarily as a remote accumulation zone of floating plastic debris. Located within the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, this region gathers ...

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 ...