The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

You've probably seen the photos: a sea turtle trapped in fishing line, a plastic bottle wedged in coral, and shorelines littered with packaging. That's not some distant problem. The same waste tossed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Environmentalists have removed more than 40 tons of plastic from the Pacific Ocean. The group, Ocean Voyages Institute, said the cleanup mission was the “largest and most successful ocean cleanup to ...

Dutch inventor Boyan Slat has developed a system that uses ocean currents to collect plastic waste. Experts consider this ...