At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now holds tens of thousands of tons of plastic pieces, along with dozens of species that call ...
The Ocean Cleanup employs advanced technologies to tackle plastic pollution, targeting the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and aiming for a 90 % reduction by 2040. We take a closer look at the ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, inside the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, debris drifts into a broad ...
Boyan Slat has a plan to rid the ocean of plastic pollution, this coming El Niño could be a monster and more big stories ...
Plastic and its impacts on the world's oceans are at the centre of a new Douglas Coupland art exhibit at the Vancouver Aquarium. The display, Vortex, is constructed from plastic trash that has washed ...
There are now five garbage-filled gyres in the world's oceans the largest and most notorious being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with its estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, spread across an ...