The deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea, Calypso Deep, was found to be a bit of a dump. That's surprising because we don't ...

kilograms of plastic have entered the ocean since you started reading They have tried to clean Midway up; the huge dump of plastic ... each year - that's one garbage truck a minute.

For the past 35 years, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current ... to show just how these garbage gyres form.

Trash found at 16,000 feet deep at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea that shouldn’t be there. Photo: University of Barcelona ...

The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than it’s ... The newest survey, which was conducted by The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, was authored by over a dozen international scientists and ...

An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean each year – equivalent to dumping in a garbage truckload of it every minute. A new report calls on the US to help stem the ...

Meanwhile, ocean plastic is estimated to kill millions ... In 2004 the region was already running out of land to safely dump garbage. The shortage of landfill space, and thus the crisis, continues ...