Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

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

A new global study has ranked the endangered Hawaiian monk seal as the marine mammal most vulnerable to extinction from plastic pollution, due to its small population, high exposure, and sensitivity ...