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 ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

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 ...

Phuket’s paradise image is once again under threat as black wastewater is seen gushing onto Kamala Beach, where unsuspecting ...

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 ...

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 ...

And one study estimates that 90% of seabirds have consumed some form of plastic waste. All that pollution on beaches and in the ocean is harmful to both marine life and humans. So Adidas is trying ...