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 ...

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 ...

With plastic ... the North Pacific Gyre, a vortex of converging currents that stretches from California to Japan. Also accumulating in these areas are neuston—snails, sea slugs, cnidarians, insects, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s ...

There's so much plastic in our oceans that it's washing up on beaches, even in places where there are no people, like here at an island in the Pacific Ocean called Henderson Island. Thousands of ...

Plastic bag bans may not be the best way to keep plastics out of the ocean, argues Todd Myers. Jay Karr Island Packet We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly ...