An estimated 1.15 to 2.41 trillion tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year and its pollution of the waters have impacted at least 267 species worldwide. This includes 44% of all seabird ...
"It's not an island of plastic, but there's definitely a large amount of plastic corralled ... caused tonnes of debris to be ejected into the Pacific ocean, and hundreds of coastal Japanese ...
Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the ...
Capt Charles Moore has just returned from a sampling expedition around Easter Island ... then form large revolving bodies of water, or gyres. But Capt Moore says the South Pacific garbage patch ...