That really doesn't bode well.

Imagine trillions of pieces of plastic debris that, if strung together end to end, would line every inch of coastline in the world at least three times over. That’s how much garbage researchers found ...

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 ...

Once seen as a barren plastic wasteland, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now a thriving habitat for coastal species. These organisms, previously confined to shorelines, are establishing persistent, ...

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 ...

Scientists from UCSD will leave this weekend to explore a massive, nasty blob in the North Pacific that has been reported being the size of Texas or larger. Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

It’s a mass of garbage roughly as large as France that floats in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, formed over years as ocean currents gather plastics and other debris from around the world in ...

Scientists from UCSD have returned from their trip to the Northern Pacific and have brought back tales, pictures and more than 100 samples from a blob of degraded plastic that is reportedly the size ...

In 1996 Captain Charles Moore, a citizen scientist and founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation, stumbled upon what came to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a ...

There's an 80,000-ton monster lurking in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California and it's still getting bigger, NBC News reported. Arguably more frightening than any shark, the Great Pacific ...