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 ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are so small and lightweight they can be swept into the air, where they may be helping to heat ...

The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

This Ocean Cleanup System Aims To Collect 50 Tons Of Plastic. But Then What? Area Of Plastic In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Three Times The Size Of France The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Eve ...

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

The real problem is that the plastic isn't just large pieces of debris like bottles and discarded fishing nets.