Rising from the ocean like a scene from a movie, this 600-foot war machine is real—and it’s terrifying. Built for strength, speed, and serious firepower, it represents the next chapter in military ...

An estimated 100,000 tons of floating plastic polluting 620,000 square miles of the Pacific is at risk of infecting the food chain. But experts are fighting back... with a little help from ...

A study of plastic trash hauled out of the Pacific Ocean found that most of it had been colonized by coastal life that was thriving right next to species that normally live in the open sea.

The patch, which is floating between Hawaii and California, contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic weighing more than 80,000 metric tons. That’s equivalent to 250 pieces of debris for every ...

Ocean Cleanup has also created giant floating “interceptor” booms that gather and remove vast quantities of plastic trash from the world’s great rivers before it reaches the oceans.

This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life from the coasts. ... That's because for her, one of the most ideal solutions to the ocean debris problem is curbing plastic use.

A study of plastic trash hauled out of the Pacific Ocean found that most of it had been colonized by coastal life that was thriving right next to species that normally live in the open sea.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enormous agglomeration of plastic waste floating in the world's largest ocean, but it's not the only one.

A reader sent in disturbing photos of floating debris and waste in Dubrovnik’s Marina Frapa, raising environmental concerns amid the busy summer season ...

Ocean trash can now be tracked from ... The team then used this database to identify what are known as windrows—floating filaments composed of garbage and plastic formed by marine currents and ...

Science | NPR This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising amount of life from the coasts. A study of plastic trash hauled out of the Pacific Ocean found that most of it had been colonized ...