Discarded plastic bags and other trash float above a shallow coral reef in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo: Ethan Daniels/Stocktrek Images (AP) Unexpected marine animals are thriving on the massive ...

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The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre’s slow, circular current keeps debris rotating in roughly the same region for years. Unlike driftwood or seaweed, plastic does not decompose quickly. A piece of ...

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Does nature have to do everything itself? An international cohort of marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash suspended in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as ...

Plastics floating in a massive “garbage patch” in the Pacific Ocean are home to strange new mixes of coastal and marine species that might increase the odds of biological invasions wreaking havoc on ...