Each seven-week mission sends two ships sailing into the heart of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. They unreel a giant U-shaped boom trailing a 10ft deep "skirt" that traps plastic in a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A 5,000-mile-long blob of smelly seaweed is on its way to Florida. It's called sargassum, and it's getting bigger because of warming temperatures. More from News A ...

Florida beaches may soon be overrun by massive patches of foul-smelling seaweed. It is the Atlantic sargassum belt, and while not new, it has been growing bigger than ever. This year's belt is ...