Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN ... according to Brown. The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic. The birds die and decay, but the plastic inside them stays ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN ... according to Brown. The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic. The birds die and decay, but the plastic inside them stays ...

The tiny island is in the path of the South Pacific Gyre - an ocean current. This is why it accumulates as much as 17 tonnes of plastic rubbish. Henderson Island is a World Heritage Listed site ...

Floating in the North Pacific Ocean is a mountain of waste the size of France ... Scientists predict that by 2050, plastic will outweigh the fish in our ocean. Also, this campaign will develop over ...

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

Endangered wildlife like Hawaiian monk seals and Pacific loggerhead sea turtles are among nearly 700 species that eat and get caught in plastic litter. It's time to get at the root of this ocean ...

marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily ... ALL PHOTOGRAPHS MADE AT A TEMPORARY FIELD LAB, NOAA PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER, KAILUA KONA, HAWAII, EXCEPT WHERE NOTED.

lies the depopulated island of 'Ata in the South Pacific Ocean. In June 1965, a group of six Tongan youths became stranded on ...