Researchers say a Texas-sized garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean is possibly killing marine life and birds that are ingesting the trash.
Scripps oceanographers are studying the effects the patch has on marine life.
And there may be a new, bigger patch floating in the Southern Ocean, where ocean currents line up to create a swirling vortex of garbage.
Matt Durham (blue shirt) and Miriam Goldstein fish out tangled net, plastic and marine organisms
[...] return to Japan but not for about six years. The rest will likely pass by Hawaii on the way to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where it will join plastic refuse from all over the world. The Path of Japan's Earthquake and [...]