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

This might just be the intervention we desperately need. Company launches fleet of drones to take on an urgent problem ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific ...

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

And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.

One of the studies describes an accumulation of micro-particles similar to the so called Pacific Garbage Patch, which was discovered a decade ago somewhere between Hawaii and California and which ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

But the reality is much less pleasant. That swath of water is home to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest accumulation of plastic trash in all the world’s oceans. The Ocean Cleanup ...

A photograph genuinely shows the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” that grew to “be twice the size of Texas.” Rating: Context: Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a ...