This "vortex" is the result of the system of ocean currents known as the South Pacific Gyre, which brings debris from across ...
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 ...
"We look forward to this launch being the first of many ways we turn ocean plastic from trash to treasure." Kia makes ...
"It's not an island of plastic, but there's definitely a large ... The disaster caused tonnes of debris to be ejected into the Pacific ocean, and hundreds of coastal Japanese marine species ...
HANGA ROA, Easter Island >> Easter Island, the tiny remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is stuck in an oceanic vortex of plastic. According to municipal data from Rapa Nui ...
Capt Charles Moore has just returned from a sampling expedition around Easter Island and Robinson ... are also investigating how plastic in the South Pacific Ocean may be threatening the survival ...
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 ...