There’s life growing on a giant patch of garbage in the ocean

By CBC Kids News

A massive patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean that has long been threatening ecosystems has now become an ecosystem itself.

On April 17, scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa published their findings that a surprising number of coastal marine species are now surviving and reproducing on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.