During the swim, he will collect data and assist with research on the plastic “smog of pollution” in the Pacific Ocean. It's estimated that between 1.15 to 2.41 million tonnes of plastic are ...

The buoyant, U-shaped barrier made of plastic and with a tapered 10-foot deep screen, is intended to act like a coastline, trapping some of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that scientists ...

Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. Nothing is an emergency ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive area measuring more than 1.6 million square kilometers, but it's just part of the North Pacific Gyre, an ocean region where currents collect plastic.

The amount of plastic debris in the part of the Pacific Ocean known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" has grown 100-fold in the past 40 years. In a paper published today by the journal Biology ...

The data now shows the garbage patch measures nearly 620,000 square miles (1.6 million square kilometers) and contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that weigh as much as 500 jumbo jets.

Oregon State University professor Angelique White figures the size of a hypothetically cohesive Pacific plastic 'patch' is actually less than 1 percent the geographic size of Texas.

SAN FRANCISCO – Far away from California’s coast, where the Pacific Ocean currents swirl, ... a ship carrying a team of scientists and volunteers gathering data on plastic garbage.

The authors suggest that somewhere between 45,000 and 129,000 tons of plastic are floating within this particular patch of ocean. By weight, the larger plastics (two inches or more) make up most ...

Plastic trash is pictured strewn across a beach at Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. Thomas Watkins/AFP/Getty Bottles, Fishing Nets, Ropes. The team used aerial images as well as data from 652 net ...

Ben Lecomte recently gave up his quest to swim across the Pacific Ocean after his boat's sail broke. Now he's documenting the extent of plastic pollution at sea.

The amount of plastic debris in the part of the Pacific Ocean known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" has grown 100-fold in the past 40 years. In a paper published today by the journal Biology ...