Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between November 2018 and January 2019. They identified 484 marine invertebrate organisms on ...

The North Pacific Garbage Patch, also called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, has accumulated approximately 80,000 tons of plastic waste—and that estimate continues to climb. Most of the litter ...

These ensnare plastic and other debris that enters ... They even put a price tag on cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. For $7.5 billion, Sainte Rose’s team estimates that the GPGP ...

This week we had our largest ever extraction from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: 11,353 kg of plastic out of the ocean for good. As we transition to System 03, we see that increasing system size ...

The Ocean Cleanup Microplastics account for 94% of the estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that make up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Credit: The Ocean Cleanup) Although this raised the ...

the most infamous of which is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, between California and Hawaii. If coastal animals have found a new, plastic-based home anywhere in the open ocean, it would be here.

Now scientists have investigated plastic debris found floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and stumbled upon a marine fungus known as Parengyodontium album. This discovery captivated ...