It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s ...

A mass of plastic in the Pacific Ocean, increasing tenfold each decade since 1945, is now the size of Texas and killing everything in its wake. Each hour North Americans consume and discard about 2.75 ...

The Pacific Islands, like the Cook Islands, are known for pristine beauty, crystal clear lagoons, vibrant coral reefs, and rich marine biodiversity. As Cook Islanders, we are traditional stewards of ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not a solid island of rubbish, but a vast region of ocean where currents concentrate floating plastic into a soup of debris. It sits in the North Pacific Subtropical ...

Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a different patch of garbage off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea — not the Pacific Ocean. For years, social media users ...