The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, inside the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, debris drifts into a broad ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

That really doesn't bode well.

You've probably seen the photos: a sea turtle trapped in fishing line, a plastic bottle wedged in coral, and shorelines littered with packaging. That's not some distant problem. The same waste tossed ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say a new study is now revealing that one of the largest patches of pollution on the planet is also teaming with life. And they're trying to learn what it means for the ...

Comics artist Pete Friedrich, a comics packager and editor of the 2004 comics anthology Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America (Chronicle), has created Foamy and Leafy, a self-published ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A six-week expedition to check out floating trash in the Pacific Ocean returns to Southern California after traveling more than 3,3000 miles with some disturbing results.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Researchers have been visiting locations in ...

Imagine trillions of pieces of plastic debris that, if strung together end to end, would line every inch of coastline in the world at least three times over. That’s how much garbage researchers found ...

It’s a mass of garbage roughly as large as France that floats in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, formed over years as ocean currents gather plastics and other debris from around the world in ...