In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN ... according to Brown. The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic. The birds die and decay, but the plastic inside them stays ...

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

One of the smallest and least-visited nations in the world is hidden in the South Pacific - imagine no crowds but plenty of ...

Floating in the North Pacific Ocean is a mountain of waste the size ... Scientists predict that by 2050, plastic will outweigh the fish in our ocean. Also, this campaign will develop over the coming ...

Endangered wildlife like Hawaiian monk seals and Pacific loggerhead sea turtles are among nearly 700 species that eat and get caught in plastic litter. It's time to get at the root of this ocean ...

We asked the experts: unless we change our ways, what will the ocean look like in 50 years? Plastic pollution on Henderson Island, an uninhabited island in the south Pacific Ocean. There will be more ...

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote islands in the world and ... Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North ...

Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...

Endangered wildlife like Hawaiian monk seals and Pacific loggerhead sea turtles are among nearly 700 species that eat and get caught in plastic litter. It's time to get at the root of this ocean ...