The Maritime Museum of B.C. hopes a closer look at the largest accumulation of ocean plastics and human-made debris in the world will help change people's habits. A new exhibit called The Great ...

At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

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Huge islands of floating plastic in the Pacific have spawned a bizarre new ecosystem where coastal creatures are breeding in ...

In 1997 Captain Charles Moore was sailing from Hawaii to California when he noticed a steady stream of plastics bobbing in the ocean. He had discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Over a thousand ...

A study published today in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that centimetre-sized plastic fragments are increasing much faster than larger floating plastics in the North ...