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.

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.

For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Bergen and its partners contributed to the national plastic cleanup effort, with this year’s cleanup targeting Lisle Lyngøy, an island near ...

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.” ...