Recent research on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is reshaping how scientists and the public understand ocean pollution.

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 ...

Ocean currents are pulling plastics into a new garbage patch in Arctic waters. Seventy-nine thousand tons of plastic debris, in the form of 1.8 trillion pieces, now occupy an area three times the size ...

The real problem is that the plastic isn't just large pieces of debris like bottles and discarded fishing nets.

The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

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