The Pacific Northwest is expected to see up to seven inches of rain this week, as the eastern United States braces for arctic ...

A French long-distance swimmer dove into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to show the negative — and massive — affects of single use plastics and pollution. Earlier in the year, Ben Lecomte dove into ...

For eight hours a day, across 338 nautical miles (626km), Ben Lecomte swam through rubbish. And unlike the marine life around him, this was his choice. Lecomte is the first person to brave the ...

Project Kaisei and Covanta Energy hope to process nonrecyclable plastic waste from the country-sized garbage patch in the Pacific and convert it into diesel. There is nothing new or good about the ...

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The North Pacific Gyre — a whirlpool of ocean currents covering millions of square miles — is so full of trash that it’s often referred to as the “Great Pacific garbage patch,” or more precisely, the ...

Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollution on Earth, a group of scientists will set sail from San Francisco today to the “Great Pacific Garbage ...

According to Xinhua News Agency, within the maritime territories of the Pacific Ocean that spans from California to Hawaii, there is a vortex below the calm surface of the ocean which is formed by the ...