Rather than a dense, walkable mass, the patch is a vast region with elevated plastic concentrations.

Imagine packing up radioactive waste in nearly 50,000 containers, dumping them in the middle of an ocean, and letting them ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean sits a concrete dome containing more than 85,000 cubic meters of radioactive waste left behind by decades of nuclear testing. Built on Runit Island in the Marshall ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

Japan is looking into using a remote deserted Pacific island nearly 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) from Tokyo as a site for burying nuclear waste, officials said. Nuclear power is making a comeback ...