Garbage Islands Threaten Three Gorges Dam

Thousands of tons of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China's massive Three Gorges Dam.

Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38517934/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Scientists Find Hints At Coming Antarctic Garbage Patch

You've heard about the Pacific garbage patch and the Atlantic garbage patch, each a sobering sign of how when we throw things away, they don't go "away" -- they often go into the sea, where they remain for a long, long time.

Much of the global ocean remains uncharted in terms of pollution, but unfortunately the more we look, the more we find....

Source:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/scientists-find-hints-at-coming-antarctic-garbage-patch.html

Huge Garbage Patch Found in Atlantic Too

Akin to the Texas-size garbage patch in the Pacific, a massive trash vortex has formed from billion of bits of plastic congregating off North America's Atlantic coast, researchers say.

Source:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100302-new-ocean-trash-garbage-patch/