Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost one million pounds of plastic refuse from the area since launching its ...

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline ... their shades of white—and their slow degradation by ocean waves, harsh sunlight, sand, and salt.

In this visualization, they use the data from these buoys to show just how these garbage gyres form ... have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current. In this visualization, they ...

There to cover Indonesian surfer Dede Suryana (above) in 2012, Noyle found himself literally swimming in a sea of garbage ... tons of plastic enters the ocean every year.

Two Australian surfers found an innovative way to clean up the ocean: ocean garbage cans. Aptly named Seabin, these garbage cans float around harbors and marinas vacuuming loose rubbish.