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 ...

In fact, so much has amalgamated in the Pacific Ocean that a new island has been born, made of an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) has an estimated ...

However, unlike a true island, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not a solid mass, but rather a dense collection of floating pieces. In 2018, scientists from The Ocean Cleanup project estimated ...

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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 ...

Crew members of the Hawaiian Adventures Kona vessel Artemis recover a ghost net from waters off the Kona Coast on Feb. 6 during a whale watching tour. (Photo Courtesy: Hawaiian Adventures Kona) ...

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 ...