PROJECTAWARE_Hilo_0093_KW.jpg Bill DeRooy owner of the Nautilus Dive Center crawls across a lava reef to pick up garbage in the ocean at 4-mile beach in Hilo, Hawaii as part of the largest ever ...

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

To find out whether that was taking place, the researchers collected over 100 plastic debris items from the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre in late 2018/early 2019.

In the subtropical gyre of the North Pacific Ocean, home to the North Pacific Garbage Patch – better known as the "plastic continent" – the concentration of small-sized plastic debris has ...

While studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, scientists found coastal species occurred on more than 70% of debris, according to a study published Monday in the Nature Ecology & Evolution journal.

The Pacific Ocean is being treated like a giant dumpster — and it's starting to look like one, too. A "floating" island of trash dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) now stretches ...

Emi Poppas picks up garbage in the ocean at 4 mile beach in Hilo, Hawaii as part of the largest ever International underwater cleanup effort organized by Project Aware, volunteer divers breath air ...

Beacon Press, 216 pp., $26.95. News of Moore’s discovery quickly took on a life of its own. The swirl of debris came to be known variously as the great Pacific garbage patch, the Pacific trash ...

The idea behind the mission comes from 22-year-old Boyan Slat, Ocean Cleanup's founder and CEO, who launched a crowdfunding campaign in 2014 with an original design to clean up 42 percent of trash ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — An ocean cleanup group retrieved an astonishing 40 tons of plastic from the Pacific Ocean during cleanup efforts. Ocean Voyages Institute conducted the cleanup between ...