Plastic flows across the Pacific with no apparent speed. Some fragments have been moving for years, thinning and softening as ...

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk. Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say a new study is now revealing that one of the largest patches of pollution on the planet is also teaming with life. And they're trying to learn what it means for the ...

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