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 ...

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 ...

In fact, so much has amalgamated in the Pacific Ocean that a new island has been born, made of an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) has an estimated ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Pollution from single-use packaging for food and beverages continues to plague Narragansett Bay and its watershed, according to a report released Jan. 17 by Save The Bay. The nonprofit organization ...

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 ...

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 ...