In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer Caroline Power captured the picture, which shows a large area ...

Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings a ... 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 ...

Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian and podcaster who caused controversy in October at a Trump rally, has landed a deal with ...

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"I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now," he said. "I think it's called Puerto Rico." The backlash was so severe ...

Trash on the island of Thilafushi in the Maldives ... a result of unusually high ocean temperatures. The government has pledged to radically reduce its carbon emissions, but that won’t matter ...

Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...

The local nonprofit Sungai Watch saves about 3 metric tons of trash from entering the ocean every day with simple barriers and manual labor. We visited the island of Bali to meet the three young ...

The tiny island is a magnet for waste in Guanabara Bay – the site of one of the world’s most postcard-perfect views and a ...

"Now, the net only brings garbage ... and 11 million end up in the ocean." A team of researchers from the Biotema environmental monitoring group was also on the island, studying the presence ...

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 ...