It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s ...

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 ...

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.

Plastic flows across the Pacific with no apparent speed. Some fragments have been moving for years, thinning and softening as ...

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 ...

Scientists from UCSD will leave this weekend to explore a massive, nasty blob in the North Pacific that has been reported being the size of Texas or larger. Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

It’s a mass of garbage roughly as large as France that floats in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, formed over years as ocean currents gather plastics and other debris from around the world in ...

National Geographic: A.W. Omta, visiting assistant professor at the College of Arts and Sciences, noted that a dynamic group of organisms, from star-like jellies to industrious snails, is thriving on ...

California-based nonprofit Ocean Voyages Institute returned to Honolulu after hauling in a record-setting 103 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the North Pacific Gyre, also known as the ...