Yet the desolate Pacific island is one of the densest hubs of plastic pollution on the planet. Its sandy shores are carpeted with an estimated 37.7 million pieces of plastic debris, new findings show.

Midway Atoll, North Pacific ... birds fly onto the island inside in their stomachs each year, according to Brown. The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic.

Midway Atoll, North Pacific ... birds fly onto the island inside in their stomachs each year, according to Brown. The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic.

We should give thanks that the Pilgrims didn’t have plastic, I thought recently as I rode a train to Plymouth along England’s south coast ... coral island in the South Pacific, researchers ...

As demand for more sustainable and environmentally friendly products goes mainstream, a large number of organizations and innovations are sprouting up to combat pollution. One of these nonprofit ...

Seabirds and other marine creatures are particularly vulnerable to plastic ... their island is, where their burrow is, and remember it for 5 years while they go fishing off the coast of Japan ...

Scientists have discovered an island off the coast of Brazil that, until now, was not very well understood. But things are changing. “Geologically, we were able to discover that the clays were ...

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 ... formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating ...