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

Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings a ... Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million ...

An application submitted to the UN on World Ocean’s Day asks for ‘The Trash Isles’ to be recognised as an official ... Designer Mario Kerkstra created the identity for the island, designing its flag ...

"I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now," he said. "I think it's called Puerto Rico." The backlash was so severe ...

There, it joins the massive conglomerates of plastic waste, forming one of the many infamous plastic islands that mar the ocean's natural beauty. This tale illuminates the interconnectedness of our ...

Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

"Now, the net only brings garbage ... and 11 million end up in the ocean." A team of researchers from the Biotema environmental monitoring group was also on the island, studying the presence ...