The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the ...

As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than ... Today, scientists know that the patch is the result of a combination of ocean currents that corral tons of manmade trash into a vortex ...

Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches ... sea to track ocean current. In this visualization, they use the data from these buoys to show just how these garbage ...

She set sail on a monthlong voyage into the North Pacific Gyre, parts of which are known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The gyre, or area of spiraling ocean currents, is approximately twice ...

Kane was struck by the high concentrations of microplastics found in the sediment, especially because Whittard Canyon is so ...

But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...

Inferred reactive probability currents of marine debris into garbage patches (red boxes). Black boxes indicate coastal boxes from which those currents emerge. The color of the arrows represents ...

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An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean each year – equivalent to dumping in a garbage truckload of it every minute. A new report calls on the US to help stem the ...