A vast patch of floating plastics garbage extending for thousands of square kilometres in a remote area of the North Atlantic has been documented by two different groups of scientists sailing from ...

Scientists have gathered data from 22 years of surface net tows to map the North Atlantic garbage patch and its change over time, creating the most accurate picture yet of any pelagic plastic ...

In 2010, when a large patch of garbage was discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, Boorujy came up with an interesting way to raise awareness. After moving to New York, Boorujy became known for his ...

"But this issue has essentially been ignored in the Atlantic." The newly described garbage patch sits hundreds of miles off the North American coast. Although its east-west span is unknown ...

A vast patch of garbage spanning a swath of the Atlantic ... the plastic pieces floating across hundreds of miles of the North Atlantic during the past 22 years. The nets only snag objects bigger ...

Similar to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the North Atlantic garbage patch is somewhat like a region of plastic soup, although "soup implies you can see the vegetables," said study leader Kara ...

Still more data are needed to assess the dimensions of the North Atlantic patch. Charles Moore, an ocean researcher credited with discovering the Pacific garbage patch in 1997, said the Atlantic ...

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The sea is blanketed in a foul-smelling brownish-yellow, seaweed (called Sargassum) and has become home to a nightmarish manmade island, dubbed the North Atlantic Garbage Patch. And yet ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the Sargasso Sea are both ... It’s defined by ocean currents of the North Atlantic Gyre, which flood the Sargasso with multitudes of floating organisms.