The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

There is no example more famous than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a heap of trash roughly double the size of Texas that ...

Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of garbage. These are known ... have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current. In this visualization, they ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Like the 11 million metric tons of plastic that enter the ocean each year, neuston accumulate in the oceans’ “garbage patches.” “I don’t think anyone trying to pull plastic out of the ocean is also ...

US President Donald Trump recently posted three images of floating ocean debris on social media Truth Social, claiming it was ...

So much plastic is discarded around the world that 8.8 million tons end up in the ocean every year ... collecting in “garbage patches” (though concentrations are too low to resemble piles ...

The largest of these aggregations is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, within the North Pacific Gyre ... and other organisms that live at the ocean’s surface. Although little is known about these ...

Credit: Research paper While this foam won’t single-handedly solve our ocean plastic crisis, it represents a promising direction in environmental remediation. The challenge now lies in scaling ...

The South Korean automaker was named the 'Sustainability Disruptor of the Year' at the 2025 Newsweek Auto Disruptor Awards.