Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between November 2018 and January 2019. They identified 484 marine invertebrate organisms on ...

We've known for a long time the world has an ocean pollution problem stemming from plastic junk. We just didn't know how bad it had gotten. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the name given to an ...

Ocean advocate Ben Lecomte will swim 300 nautical miles through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, beginning on June 8, 2019 – World Ocean Day. Starting in Hawaii, he will swim up to eight hours a ...

The largest, the Great Pacific Patch, is halfway between Hawaii and California and contains at least 79,000 tons of plastic, according to the Ocean Cleanup Foundation. But garbage isn’t the only ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, estimated to contain as much as 142 thousand tons of plastic garbage spread over an area that covers a million square miles, is no ...

The problem of plastic in the ocean is worse than feared. There’s actually more microplastic 1,000 feet down than there is in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The largest such repository, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, has amassed so much plastic pollution that if it was heaped together it would amount to twice the size of Texas, according to ...

On Saturday, September 8, the Ocean Cleanup launched the first of the arrays they hope to use to clear plastic pollution from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. There's a stunning amount of plastic ...

Ocean Plastic Pollution Is A $2.5T Problem Every Year. ... says they're on track to eliminate the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) within the next decade. Don't Miss: ...

Nearly 80,000 tonnes of plastic are floating in the area of the ocean known as the “Great Pacific garbage patch”.. Scientists arrived at this figure, which is around 16 times higher than ...