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 ...

Dr Chuan Huang, the study's lead author, explained: “Earth’s continents have formed supercontinents multiple times in its history, and the next one is likely to emerge as the Pacific Ocean closes.

trash. Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, said he made the unsettling discovery as he descended nearly 10,928 metres to a point in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench that is the deepest ...

An estimated 1.15 to 2.41 trillion tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year and its pollution of the waters have impacted at least 267 species worldwide. This includes 44% of all seabird ...

including the formation of the infamous “7th continent” – a massive accumulation of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean. The scale of this pollution is alarming : ・Two-thirds of plastic ...

In 2013, Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size of ...