The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

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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.

On Henderson Island, an uninhabited coral island in the South Pacific ... and of course, plastic shopping bags. Kathleen Dohan, a scientist and the president of Earth and Space Research in ...

Encircled by jacuzzi-warm water as clear as crystal, the little island is covered by leafy palm ... Getting here first requires flying deep into the South Pacific - with United Airlines from ...

The world's largest coral has been found in the southwest Pacific Ocean, and scientists say the massive organism is visible from space ... in partnership with the island nation's government ...

The single greatest threat to the diversity of life in our oceans over the past 50 years, more than climate change or plastic ...

A project proposed by Elon Musk's SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote ...