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 ...

its long-term goal being to rid the Pacific Ocean of most or all of the floating plastic pollution over a 10-year span. "Since we started with System 002 in 2021, we've seen a steady increase.

This is not the first case linking plastics with the deepest parts of the ocean. Explorer makes alarming find while ...

Plastic pollution is one of the most looming environmental crises in the world Be it in the ocean in landfills or even in the air one breathes plastic waste floats flies or moves along winds and river ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity ... considered the five worst offenders when it comes to plastic pollution, according to a study published in Science, and ...

Fiji has shown that even small nations can lead in environmental sustainability. By fostering partnerships, advocating for ...

The first documented cases of seabirds ingesting plastic were 74 Laysan albatross chicks found on a Pacific atoll in 1966, when plastic production was roughly a twentieth of what it is today.

Eight billion tonnes of plastic have been produced since 1950. Much of it lies unrecycled in dumps, in the ocean or on beaches ... this paradisical South Pacific island is awash with over four billion ...

Experts say ocean plastics are an obvious subject for a global treaty: plastics present a large-scale threat. Plastic pollution doesn ... currently in the mid Pacific - which it fears may harm ...

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 ...