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 ...

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

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than it’s ever been, covering an area ...

The Trash Isles campaign was thought up by ad creatives Michael Hughes and Dalatando Almeida. Designer Mario Kerkstra created the identity for the island, designing its ... Scientists predict that by ...

are littered with garbage, much of it plastic. Last fall Break Free From Plastic, a coalition including Greenpeace and other groups, cleaned a beach on Freedom Island, which is advertised as an ...

The expanded initiative aims to one day make the entire island rid of single-use plastic, so our local wildlife ... becoming fed up with the amount of trash littered throughout the island.

"Now, the net only brings garbage, garbage ... heat this week to collect hundreds of sacks of plastic waste in a clean-up drive on the island. The tiny island is a magnet for waste in Guanabara ...

There are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil. So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an ...