Two huge floating islands of garbage are taking up hundreds of thousands of square miles of real estate in what's known as ...

Many of the creatures are coastal species, living miles from their usual habitats, on a patch halfway between ... floating debris to accumulate - in the Pacific. Lead researcher Dr Linsey Haram ...

He was part of the team which discovered the first ocean "garbage patch" in the North Pacific gyre in 1997 and ... Capt Moore explained that the space occupied by sub-tropical gyres - areas ...

There's a good chance it came from a large concentration of floating marine debris called the North Pacific Garbage Patch ...

One of the studies describes an accumulation of micro-particles similar to the so called Pacific Garbage Patch, which was discovered ... that they are hard to see. How there’s no real method ...

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To find out how destructive negligence and indifference are, it is enough to move between Hawaii and California and see the ...

New research shows that one of these infamous trash whirlpools at sea — the North Pacific Garbage Patch — is growing even larger, threatening both marine life and, increasingly, human health.