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 ...

Discover the shocking truth about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) and the real culprits behind ocean pollution. This ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation British fund have even calculated that if garbage ...

SAUSALITO, Calif. (KGO) -- Nearly every day cargo ships arrive here in the Bay Area, carrying everything from cars to consumer goods. But one ship that just docked in Sausalito is delivering cargo ...

IT WAS a glorious sunny day in September 2023. Excitement filled the air and a rainbow stretched across the horizon as the team slowly hauled a giant net out of the glistening sea. The Ocean Cleanup ...

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 ...

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five gigantic garbage patches... Do you clean up ocean trash if it's part of a ...

Far away from California's coast, where the Pacific Ocean currents swirl, the blue of the sea was replaced by fishing nets, buckets, buoys, laundry baskets and unidentifiable pieces of plastic that ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A six-week expedition to check out floating trash in the Pacific Ocean returns to Southern California after traveling more than 3,3000 miles with some disturbing results.