Ocean Vortex is a spiraling floating parliament concept built from recycled marine plastic, turning the Great Pacific Garbage ...

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 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 ...

A study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals that centimeter-sized plastic fragments are increasing much faster than larger floating plastics in the North Pacific Garbage Patch [NPGP], ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been treated as a symbol of what humanity throws away. Scientists, however, are now warning that it is also becoming something stranger, a human-made habitat ...