The garbage patch off the Pacific coast of the United States is so large that it’s become its own thriving ecosystem. A team of researchers has discovered that coastal species, in addition to ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

1. It’s big. At 618,000 square miles, there’s plenty of room in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for everyone’s garbage. Scientists say that it’s twice the size of Texas.

Scientists say one of the largest patches of pollution on the planet has become a substitute environment for dozens of species, generating questions about what this means for the ocean and the coast.

The Great Pacific Ocean Patch refers to a big swirling soup of plastic in the ocean. A new study found the patch was full of sea life that was living on the plastic debris.

There is a lot of trash to clean up in the world's oceans. And so far, the way to do it is one big boat at a time. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Kwai is back in its homeport of Sausalito, Calif ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so large that tiny creatures are making it home. Some 79,000 tonnes of plastic debris is swirling in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre between California and Hawaii ...

Six years ago, two ships were sent out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in an effort to develop technology to clean it up for good. On Friday, those same two ships returned to San Francisco Bay.

The Garbage Patch Babies will be available for “adoption” at the fundraiser. The rehoming fee for each is a minimum donation of $200, which is tax deductible.