Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings a calm ... thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you probably ...

The plastic garbage, on the other hand, had a relatively effortless journey to Henderson. The island sits near the center of the South Pacific Gyre, an ocean current that sweeps up debris carried ...

The island in question ... "The pollution, the garbage in the sea and the plastic dumped incorrectly in the oceans is becoming geological material," she added, "preserved in the earth's geological ...

Almost all of the garbage they found on Henderson Island was made from plastic. There were toy soldiers, dominos, toothbrushes and hundreds of hardhats of every shape, size and color. The ...

Have you ever been to the beach? Was there trash on the sand? Well, then you should hear about an island in the Pacific Ocean that is made of trash and is twice the size of Texas. This island was ...

But ocean currents have also swept an abundance of bottles, household waste and other plastic trash from around the world to the island, she said. Santos said she plans to make the topic her main ...

Even worse, what we are seeing with both the North Pacific garbage patch and all of the rest of the free-floating ocean plastic is simply the icing on a grubby, disgusting cake. After all ...

there’s a new kind of fish that nibbles away at plastic trash. The 4-by-6-foot “litter critter” welcomes beachgoers on the pavilion of the beach on Long Island Sound, its cavernous mouth ...

that’s because fewer people are smoking and there are laws restricting smoking on Rhode Island state beaches. But it’s primarily because she’s been seeing more and more plastic garbage every ...

There was still trash left on the beach ... Among the items found on Fisherman Island were 264 plastic fragments, 136 plastic caps and 135 plastic beverage bottles. Other items included a leather ...