Oceanborne debris has washed ashore on Hawaii coasts at higher rates than usual this year, and cleanup teams are expecting ...

One of the studies describes an accumulation of micro-particles similar to the so called Pacific Garbage Patch, which was discovered a decade ago somewhere between Hawaii and California and which ...

Predictions suggest a build-up of about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between California and Hawaii. This figure is up to sixteen times higher than previously ...

Her team will carry out scientific experiments on the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch", now said to be three ... our bodies," she told BBC News from Hawaii where the mission will start.

An estimated 100,000 tons of plastic is believed to be trapped by ocean currents in the North Pacific Gyre between California and Hawaii ... of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is located in the Pacific Ocean, between California and Hawaii. The surface area of the Great ...

As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

What is causing the harvest to fail? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a name given to the waste objects collected in the ocean halfway between Hawaii and California. It contains more than 1.8 ...