Recent research on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is reshaping how scientists and the public understand ocean pollution.

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Let’s be clear from the start, you should never throw trash in the oceans. It is a huge ecological problem, and this type of pollution is responsible for a huge amount of environmental damage and the ...

You've probably seen the photos: a sea turtle trapped in fishing line, a plastic bottle wedged in coral, and shorelines littered with packaging. That's not some distant problem. The same waste tossed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ship tows The Ocean Cleanup's first buoyant trash-collecting device into the Pacific Ocean from the San Francisco Bay in 2018.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Floating in the middle of the ocean is a giant collection of trash and debris that's come to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The accumulation of plastics, cans and other ...

The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

Close-up of a sample collected with the neuston net, showing plastic particles with considerable animal 'by-catch' Credit: Annika Jahnke / UFZ Close-up of a sample collected with the neuston net, ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say a new study is now revealing that one of the largest patches of pollution on the planet is also teaming with life. And they're trying to learn what it means for the ...