It covers an area as large as Manhattan. It’s twice the size of Japan. About as big as Alaska. It rivals Australia in expanse. The Incredible Shrinking Cod: A new study suggests that intense ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch weighs 87,000 tons -- 16 times more than previous estimates -- and contains more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, according to a new analysis.

The garbage patch off the Pacific coast of the United States is so large that it’s become its own thriving ecosystem. A team of researchers has discovered that coastal species, in addition to ...

If just the permitted area is filled, the garbage would cover about 80 football fields with trash 140 feet deep. But all of that will be capped by a layer of earth that should be clean enough, in ...