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 ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, ...

It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s becoming something else. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where no ...

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.

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (KABC) -- Following January's wildfires, there have been reports of increased debris floating off the Southern California coast, including a viral video that showed a ...

Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a different patch of garbage off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea — not the Pacific Ocean. For years, social media users ...

Chattahoochee Riverkeeper installed Columbus’ first trash trap at Cooper Creek. Australia-based Atlan Stormwater floating wetland collects trash & supports native plants. CSU students and CRK staff ...