The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN ... according to Brown. The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic. The birds die and decay, but the plastic inside them stays ...

The plastic garbage, on the other hand, had a relatively effortless journey to Henderson. The island sits near the center of the South Pacific Gyre, an ocean current that sweeps up debris carried ...

This World Earth Day, we applaud the theme OUR POWER, OUR PLANET, encouraging all to take action educate, advocate, and pledge an Earth Action for transformational change in response to the triple ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

With the call to action “Start Local, Affect Global,” the St. Croix-based company is building scalable, island-first ...

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote islands in the world and ... Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North ...

In the Philippines, where thousands of islands face the brunt of ocean waste, grassroots groups are mobilising ... A ...

Endangered wildlife like Hawaiian monk seals and Pacific loggerhead sea turtles are among nearly 700 species that eat and get caught in plastic litter. It's time to get at the root of this ocean ...