In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

The newest survey, which was conducted by The Ocean Cleanup Foundation ... the patch isn’t a garbage island, but rather a massive area of the Pacific that has an incredibly high plastic density.

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

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President Trump, as part of his expansive package of new tariffs, levied taxes on a number of uninhabited or sparsely ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Underwater photographer Caroline Power captured the picture, which shows a large area of trash off the coast of Roatán Island, Honduras, in 2017. The island is in the Caribbean Sea, not the Pacific ...