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

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

up to gigantic floating trash islands like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is three times the size of France. However, ...

Now the same team, along with their colleagues, have found signs of dementia-like brain damage, kidney and liver dysfunction, ...

About 18 billion pounds of plastic waste flow from coastal ... has an area of just 32 square miles. The small island has a significant amount of trash floating in the waters and along the beaches.

If you discard a plastic bottle at an Australian ... kelp could raft to Antarctica from sub-Antarctic islands... but our ...

The arrival of non-indigenous species on floating plastic “rafts” has also been identified as a problem for these remote islands. This study highlights that the impacts of plastic pollution ...

Can plastic cause brain damage in seabirds? Research shows plastic pollution is harming their liver, kidneys, and even memory ...

There are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil. So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an ...