The more we learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — that unappealing soup of mostly-tiny, partially submerged plastic particles stuck in a gyre of ocean currents — the less we seem to know. Last ...

Discarded plastic bags and other trash float above a shallow coral reef in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo: Ethan Daniels/Stocktrek Images (AP) Unexpected marine animals are thriving on the massive ...

When you think of plastic in the oceans, you might think of the Pacific Garbage Patch being the worst of our problems. However, it turns out there are many more areas of pollution throughout the ...

Plastics floating in a massive “garbage patch” in the Pacific Ocean are home to strange new mixes of coastal and marine species that might increase the odds of biological invasions wreaking havoc on ...