The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic. The birds die and decay, but the plastic inside them stays forever in the sand -- a layer of man's doing that will never go away.

In the polluted waters off the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, this seahorse latched onto a plastic cotton swab—“a photo I wish didn’t exist,” says photographer Justin Hofman. PHOTOGRAPH BY ...

Santos first found the plastic rocks in 2019, when she travelled to the island to research her doctoral thesis on a completely different topic – landslides, erosion and other “geological risks.” ...

As humanity, we produce 400 million tonnes of plastic per year, and 11 million end up in the ocean.” A team of researchers from the Biotema environmental monitoring group was also on the island ...