Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the ...

Floating in the North Pacific Ocean ... of waste the size of France. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of two masses of rubbish between the US and Japan and contains everything from LEGO ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

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 ...

Just after dawn in Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, trash pickers ... bits of plastic into the water, according to one estimate. On some beaches on the Big Island of Hawaii, as much ...

This vast ocean dump is a by ... the disassembling of this garbage patch is complicated by its composition. Contrarily to some media portrayals, it's not an island but rather a "soup," where ...

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Anyone who has ever visited Bali was likely quick to notice the extreme amount of plastic pollution ... the water you’re hit with the reality of an island nation without a proper waste ...

Global ocean plastics, projected to double to 300 million tonnes by 2040, further threaten vulnerable nations. For Fiji, ...