Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings a calm ... and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish, by weight, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

With marine pollution caused by plastic waste becoming a global ... on the western coast of Shikoku Island has a thriving fishing industry. Sea bream and pearls are among the bounty provided ...

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 ...

While this waste is spread fairly throughout the entire ocean system, much of it ends up clustered in vast plastic islands. Dr Garrard says: 'The worst hotspots for plastic are coastal areas ...

an island near Hellesøy famously featured in the NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Coorporation) documentary Plasthavet (“The Plastic Ocean”). The cleanup campaign, held on September 12 ...

"Fishing gear remains in situ for a long time and in practice turns the ocean into a plastic landfill site, because particles of microplastics are formed when the materials degrade in the ocean.

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

This is an expansion of the island’s turtle-friendly restaurant program. The expanded initiative aims to one day make the ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...

Trump says he and Putin have agreed to begin 'negotiations' on ending Ukraine war ...

While plastic straws have been blamed for polluting oceans and harming marine life, Trump said Monday that he thinks “it’s ...