Recent research on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is reshaping how scientists and the public understand ocean pollution. Long viewed simply as a floating mass of waste, the patch is now found to ...

The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

As plastic tumbles against itself, it fragments, and a new study shows those fragments don't stay in the water.

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