Plastic trash is pictured strewn across a beach at Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. Thomas Watkins/AFP/Getty Bottles, Fishing Nets, Ropes. The team used aerial images as well as data from 652 net ...

As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of garbage are taking up hundreds of thousands of square miles of real ...

Researchers found almost 38 million pieces of trash that washed up on a tiny uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Henderson Island, which was designated a World Heritage Site in part because ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the ...

Researchers who traveled to the tiny, uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean found about 38 million pieces of trash washed up on its beaches. (Photos by Jennifer Lavers/Via AP) By — Associated ...

Why a tiny, uninhabited island has world's worst plastic pollution 00:53. WELLINGTON, New Zealand-- When researchers traveled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they ...

An island known for biodiversity is covered with over 37 million pieces of plastic, with around 3,500 more washing up its shores every day. Researchers estimate 3,500 pieces of plastic wash up daily ...

ALthough the claim associated with the photograph — that a massive garbage patch covers 8.1% of the Pacific Ocean — has been advanced by some scientists, this image does not specifically ...

Henderson Island, an uninhabited atoll in the South Pacific, is so isolated that it’s one of the few places in the world “whose ecology has been practically untouched by a human presence ...

Easter Island off the coast of Chile has a major trash problem. It’s near what’s known as a “trash vortex” in the middle of the South Pacific and floating waste is constantly washing ashore.

The Pacific Ocean is being treated like a giant dumpster — and it's starting to look like one, too. A "floating" island of trash dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) now stretches ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the ...