The 151-foot vessel Kaisei is back in the Bay Area after its exploration of a vortex of floating plastic garbage 1,000 miles out in the Pacific Ocean. The ship left Sausalito Aug. 4 to capture some of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A French long-distance swimmer dove into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to show the negative — and massive — affects of single ...

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46 different species in the "garbage vortex" that floats between California and Hawaii The Great Pacific ...

It will be an ocean voyage to the least glamorous of destinations - a floating garbage dump in the middle of the Pacific. "I had no idea what a problem it was, and that's when I decided it was ...

In the vast, swirling expanse of the North Pacific Ocean lies a phenomenon as intriguing as it is troubling – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). This colossal debris vortex stretching from ...

When people swim in Lake Erie, they're frolicking not just among perch and walleye but a vast, inanimate presence of garbage. This material floats just beneath the surface and is made of little bits ...

The North Pacific Gyre — a whirlpool of ocean currents covering millions of square miles — is so full of trash that it’s often referred to as the “Great Pacific garbage patch,” or more precisely, the ...

There are two bits of microplastic news from this weekend. One of them is garbage, and the other is poop. First the garbage. On Saturday, 52-year-old French long-distance swimmer Benoît Lecomte and ...

In the summer of 1997, sea captain and surfer Charles Moore was sailing home from Hawaii. He’d been recently finished the TransPacific Yacht Race, and on the way back to California, he decided to take ...

Easter Island off the coast of Chile has a major trash problem. It’s near what’s known as a “trash vortex” in the middle of the South Pacific and floating waste is constantly washing ashore. Local ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Old toothbrushes, beach toys and used condoms are part of a vast vortex of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, threatening sea creatures that get tangled in it, ...