The landfill closed in 1978. The garbage, 100 feet deep in some places, was covered with dirt roughly 4 feet thick. A barrier ...

Plastic has become a vital part of our lives of convenience. Yet the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags we use once and throw away do end up somewhere -- in landfills, but also in the ocean.

Coastal communities and beaches in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama had the highest levels of contamination from plastics in the ocean.

Back in 1997 Capt. Charles Moore discovered theGreat Pacific Garbage Patch during a sailboat race from Los Angeles to Honolulu. Since then,many have tried to reduce the size of the patch, which is ...

The 2,000-foot-long floating boom is being towed from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an island of trash twice the size of Texas.

The 600 metre-long floating boom was being towed from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an island of trash twice the size of the US state of Texas.

The Ocean Cleanup, a long floating boom that will be used to corral plastic litter in the Pacific Ocean is assembled in Alameda, California.Credit: AP ...

NEW YORK, March 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A giant island of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean holds as much as 16 times more debris than was previously thought, posing a significant ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the ...