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

Heartbreaking photos depict how octopuses have been increasingly forced to shelter in discarded garbage as trash replaces seashells on the ocean floor.

Photos: Giant Ocean-Trash Vortex Documented—A First Take a look at pieces of the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, a loose, free-floating "dump" twice the size of Texas.

In countries such as the Philippines (among the countries putting the most plastic trash in the ocean), packaging has quickly shifted to plastic over the last few decades.

Ocean trash everywhere is on the rise, which is bad news for our waters, for marine life, and for us. Plastic debris in the ocean can entangle, suffocate, and starve marine life (when they fill ...

The problem is that these pictures of the GPGP are misleading and obscure the truth about the content of the GPGP, its origins, and the threat it poses to our ocean life.

Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a different patch of garbage off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea — not the Pacific Ocean. For years, social media ...

Oceans of plastic The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is twice the size of Texas, is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world.

The bold question-askers at What If explore what happens when humans dump 3.5 billion tons of trash into the deep ocean.

The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than it’s ever been, covering an area that spans 1.6 million square kilometers. That’s up to 16 … ...

Trash found at bottom of untouched water in huge ocean hole: ‘Starkest reminder of the danger of climate change’ ...

Patches of floating plastic are teeming with life, and cleanup companies hauling trash out of the water risk destroying a marine habitat.