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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

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 ...

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], ...