It’s the middle of oceanic nowhere. No luxury cruise boats. No fishing vessels. Not even the occasional cargo ship. Other than the intermittent flying fish skimming over and then plopping back into ...

Capt. Charles Moore didn’t think much about plastic or where it ended up until he was sailing back from a trans-Pacific boat race in 1997. Taking a shortcut through the North Pacific Gyre, a vast ...

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 ...

The plastic vortex of the Northern Pacific is where much of the non-biodegradable rubbish from everyday life ends up. The giant floating rubbish patch is a large accumulation of debris swirling within ...

On film, many a desert-island castaway has put a message in a bottle and cast it out to sea, hoping it would someday reach land. Sorry, all you modern-day Robinson ...

Cross-posted from the Tahina Expedition: My wife and I are leaving in October to begin a five year sailing circumnavigation we are calling the Tahina Expedition. Our trip is not just about visiting ...

Global waste has always had particularly devastating effects on developing countries, with island nations such as the Philippines and Indonesia bearing the brunt of waste produced by larger nations ...

Earlier this month, two ships sailed from California to study a large patch of the Pacific Ocean, known as the “plastic vortex,” where maritime currents are causing plastic litter to congregate.

Deep in the ocean is a plastic vortex, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Some people say it’s twice the size of Texas, others that it’s bigger than the continental United States. But the latest ...