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 ...

an island near Hellesøy famously featured in the NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Coorporation) documentary Plasthavet (“The Plastic Ocean”). The cleanup campaign, held on September 12 ...

Fisherman Jose Antonio Crispin recalls the days when he would throw out a net and get a decent haul of fish around Pombeba ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...