Discover the escalating crisis of ocean plastic pollution and how The Ocean Cleanup is tackling this environmental issue.

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46 different species in the "garbage vortex" that floats between California and Hawaii The Great Pacific ...

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.

"It's highly likely they are eating or getting tangled in the huge amount of plastic in the area," one scientist said While conducting research for the Ocean Cleanup’s Aerial Expedition, scientists ...

To the editor: To combat plastic pollution in our oceans, we need to cut back on plastic production, not try to capture the endless stream of it. A recent article in The Times on an effort to ...

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One man’s trash is an ocean creature’s home. Marine animals that typically live in the coastal areas of the western Pacific Ocean are multiplying on the debris of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A man who swam through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch discovered that ...

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A team of researchers with the Ocean Cleanup project and Wageningen University, both in the Netherlands, has found via sampling and testing that more than 90% of the identifiable trash swirling around ...