Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings ... Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million ...

Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage ... plastic bags for prey, such as jellyfish. Disturbingly, the Patch is not a floating island ...

There, it joins the massive conglomerates of plastic waste, forming one of the many infamous plastic islands that mar the ocean's natural beauty. This tale illuminates the interconnectedness of our ...

What do we get wrong when we talk about ocean plastic? A lot, it turns out. Business Insider producer Elizabeth McCauley dives into the scientific literature and talks to experts to find out how ...

Not long ago I went snorkeling in the Pacific Ocean, a half mile off the southwest coast of Oahu. The flanks of the Hawaiian island are ... before they met our plastic trash.

This is an expansion of the island’s turtle-friendly restaurant program. The expanded initiative aims to one day make the ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning federal agencies from using paper straws, declaring they ...

Trump says he and Putin have agreed to begin 'negotiations' on ending Ukraine war ...

While plastic straws have been blamed for polluting oceans and harming marine life, Trump said Monday that he thinks “it’s ...