The amount of plastic pollution previously thought to exist around the world may be a dramatic underestimate — because the vast majority of plastic pollution may actually be below the surface. That's ...

Melted plastic has become ingrained in rocks on a remote island in Brazil. Trinidade Island has long been an intriguing location for scientists. However, the discovery of plastic rocks, where plastic ...

STORY: This is the Brazilian island of Trindade. Its geology has fascinated scientists for years. But the latest discovery on this remote turtle refuge, has terrified them. These rocks are made from ...

The islands of the British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic, including St. Helena, East Falkland, and Ascension Island, are so tiny and remote that most people don’t even realize they exist.

Global waste has always had particularly devastating effects on developing countries, with island nations such as the Philippines and Indonesia bearing the brunt of waste produced by larger nations ...

A key reason plastic trash is so damaging to the environment is that it doesn’t disappear ― it breaks into small pieces called microplastics that can linger for decades or more and can travel on the ...

Scientists are reeling from the discovery of “plastic rocks” on a remote volcanic island off of the Brazilian coast — a troubling sign, experts told Reuters, of just how deeply plastic pollution has ...

Ten times more plastic is washing up on the shores of remote South Atlantic islands than a decade ago, new research shows. The findings show for the first time that plastic pollution on some remote ...

Even the most remote beaches in Australia aren’t free from plastic and a new documentary shows the disturbing truth. A new documentary Protecting Paradise has revealed just how much plastic pollution ...

Almost one million shoes and over 370,000 toothbrushes – they’re among the 414 million pieces of plastic found washed ashore on the remote Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean, according to new ...

Midway Atoll resident biologist John Klavitter is not surprised when he finds plastic in the bellies of dead Laysan albatross chicks. Opening one chick's stomach with a bone, Klavitter finds lots of ...