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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...