The newest survey, which was conducted by The Ocean Cleanup Foundation ... the mid 1980s when chunks of free-floating chemical sludge, plastics, and other debris was found to be congregating ...

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

This exponential increase poses a significant threat to the local ecosystem and potentially the global carbon cycle.

Heal the Bay, a Los Angeles County environmental nonprofit, says they are still seeing elevated heavy metals in the ocean. The immediate effect is a blackout beneath floating debris. The debris ...

It'll work to reduce trash going into the bay and ocean from the creek by about 80 ... Lowery explained, as the water level rises, so does the floating structure. Soon, solar panels will power ...

With no investors, no credentials, and just $300 in savings, this teenager decided to clean the ocean... and somehow, it worked.

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean ... satellite data with data collected by floating sensors, called drifters, that ride ocean currents and record their trajectories.