Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

Heal the Bay, a Los Angeles County environmental nonprofit, says they are still seeing elevated heavy metals in the ocean. The immediate effect is a blackout beneath floating debris. The debris ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

They mistake plastic debris floating in the ocean for food. Researchers recently coined the term ‘plasticosis,’ a condition that’s causing seabirds’ digestive tracts to become scarred from ...

"I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now," he said. "I think it's called Puerto Rico." The backlash was so severe that at ...

"I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now," he said. "I think it's called Puerto Rico." The backlash was so severe ...

It is a world cut off from our own by thick blankets of floating ice, but some scientists are taking the plunge to learn how ...