You've probably seen the photos: a sea turtle trapped in fishing line, a plastic bottle wedged in coral, and shorelines ...

Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ocean’s surface. It’s easy to find striking images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP).

They hang out at the nexus of the world's ocean currents, changing shape with the waves. The largest is the North Pacific Garbage Patch, known colloquially as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

A substitute environment made up of an estimated 80,000 tons of plastic, fishing nets and trash floating in the Pacific. Mary Crowley directs Ocean Voyages Institute, which organizes the clean-up ...

Sausalito-based recovery ship KWAI collected over 96 tons of plastic materials from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after a month-long voyage.

Washington, D.C. -- Scientists estimate roughly 1 1/2 million tons of Japanese tsunami debris is floating in the Pacific Ocean. Computer models show that lighter pieces of debris, affected by the ...

When researchers traveled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches.

A substitute environment made up of an estimated 80,000 tons of plastic, fishing nets and trash floating in the Pacific.