Quick Key Facts Eight million tons of plastic reaches our oceans annually. The top plastic marine debris items are cigarette ...

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

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

CEO Daniel Birnbaum — along with 150 company executives, environmental specialists, and representatives of the Plastic Soup ... Pacific Garbage Patch, a vortex of trash in the North Pacific ...

This vast ocean ... plastic is present, and yet, no country accepts responsibility. According to a study from the "Nature" journal published in 2022, the majority of the plastic in the Great ...

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 ...

marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally ... 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 ...