In the vast, swirling expanse of the North Pacific Ocean lies a phenomenon as intriguing as it is troubling – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). This colossal debris vortex stretching from ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Sometimes the object spotted in the water is a snarled fishing line. Or a buoy. Or something that might once have been the lid to an ice box. Not once — not yet at least ...

A relatively uncharted island entirely made of trash, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enigma. Still, reducing its size is an even bigger mystery. The Ocean Cleanup is an organization using ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now flourishing with marine life. On Monday, scientists revealed that a diverse array of coastal species are thriving in a "floating community composition," which is ...

Scientists have found thriving communities of coastal creatures, including tiny crabs and anemones, living thousands of miles from their original home on plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage ...

Translucent, fragile marine creatures that drift through the sea are riding the motion of the ocean to a destination that's infamous as a home for trash: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Ocean surface ...

Welcome to episode two of NPR Short Wave's summer series, Sea Camp! Today, we linger at the surface and revisit an episode about an ocean conundrum: Trash from humans is constantly spilling into the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Old toothbrushes, beach toys and used condoms are part of a vast vortex of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, threatening sea creatures that get tangled in it, ...

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 Anna Lazarus Caplan ...

The patch is bounded by an enormous gyre -- the biggest of five huge, spinning circular currents in the world's oceans that pull trash towards the center and trap it there, creating a garbage vortex.