In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

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 ...

One of the smallest and least-visited nations in the world is hidden in the South Pacific - imagine no crowds but plenty of ...

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

The sweeping tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday target not only economic superpowers but also financial minnows. In fact, a White House list notes some territories with no ...

As demand for more sustainable and environmentally friendly products goes mainstream, a large number of organizations and innovations are sprouting up to combat pollution. One of these nonprofit ...

We asked the experts: unless we change our ways, what will the ocean look like in 50 years? Plastic pollution on Henderson Island, an uninhabited island in the south Pacific Ocean. There will be more ...

Flesh-footed shearwaters, large, sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the ... of seabirds ingesting plastic were 74 Laysan albatross chicks found on a Pacific atoll in 1966, when plastic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...