To formulate the size of the island, a team of scientists ... of floating plastic debris is found in the Atlantic Ocean - the North Atlantic garbage patch - which was first documented in 1972 ...

The region, located in the North Atlantic Ocean is called the Sargasso ... and has become home to a nightmarish manmade island, dubbed the North Atlantic Garbage Patch. And yet, it remains a ...

Research groups made a presentation of their conclusions last February in the Ocean Sciences meeting in Portland, Oregon although scientists have been reporting plastic garbage in the Atlantic ...

A massive iceberg, known as A23a, is on an apparent collision course with South Georgia Island, a British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. The giant sheet of ice, which originally broke off ...