The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific, captured by four currents ...

“Under every gillnet that I’ve found, there’s always a bone pile, so evidence of its ‘ghost fishing’ for ... that the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the accumulation of marine ...

Floating in the middle of the North Atlantic, hundreds of miles from any coastline, the Sargasso Sea defies typical ...

Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ocean’s surface. It’s easy to find striking images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). The problem is that ...

Marine life can be trapped in plastic garbage, especially discarded “ghost” fishing nets that continue ... a staggering 94% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, according to the WorldWildlife ...

Did you know that there's a garbage patch ... fishing nets. Furthermore, they often mistake the gelatinous texture of plastic for a jellyfish, their preferred food. The hazards of ghost fishing ...

A fishing expedition of sorts that brought in a mother lode of plastic from the area of the ocean known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been delivered to Ogden Point in Victoria for ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an enormous pile of floating trash ... dangers to the local ecosystem by entangling marine life in fishing nets, animals eating plastic and other debris and ...

known colloquially as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. These areas were long thought to have been uninhabited, the plastics and fishing gear too harmful to marine life. But researchers have ...

Texas-sized glob is teeming with marine life, turning it into an unnatural habitat The Pacific Garbage Patch, which is one ... from bottles to toothbrushes to fishing nets. Thanks to a persistent ...

Life finds a way — even amid a 620,000-square-mile pile of floating garbage ... fishing nets and buoys to microplastics less than five millimetres long. Also called the Pacific trash vortex, the ...

There's life amid the garbage. Marine animals that usually live only in coastal areas of the western Pacific Ocean have been found living and reproducing on plastic debris on the high seas – in ...