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, ...

Facts About Plastic Pollution and Microplastics Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our ...

Fiji has shown that even small nations can lead in environmental sustainability. By fostering partnerships, advocating for stronger global regulations, and inspiring innovation, the Pacific can forge ...

Vote for a strong global treaty on plastic pollution Plastic pollution is suffocating our rivers and ocean, killing wildlife and contaminating our food, air and water. Without immediate action, ...

including the formation of the infamous “7th continent” – a massive accumulation of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean. The scale of this pollution is alarming : ・Two-thirds of plastic ...

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New ... and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

In fact, so much has amalgamated in the Pacific Ocean that a new island has been ... project’s goal is to remove half of the plastic pollution by 2027 using floating barriers anchored to the ...

But it turned out not to be plastic at all. Instead, it was the brittle skeleton of an animal ... called the Vortex Expedition that followed long-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte as he traversed the ...

There's so much plastic in our oceans that it's washing up on beaches, even in places where there are no people, like here at an island in the Pacific Ocean called Henderson Island. Thousands of ...