Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean - bags, cups, straws, and many other items from the daily ...

Every year, we throw 300 million tons of plastic waste, which ends up in rivers and oceans, and then enters into our bodies.

Participants and volunteers remove plastic waste and other garbage washed ashore at a beach in Kedonganan Badung regency, Indonesia's Bali island on Jan 4, 2025. (Photo: AFP/Sonny Tumbelaka ...

The best science tells us that plastic never goes away, it poisons us all: in bloodstreams, ocean mammals and ocean ... Each year, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch floats closer and closer to ...

PHUKET, Thailand, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Plastic bottles and empty beer cans roll on the sea floor in the waters around Phuket in southern Thailand, while ever more garbage piles up on the island ...

It’s one of nature’s healthiest wild foods, the backbone of a major industry in the Pacific Northwest and deeply embedded in the diets and cultures of Indigenous people in the region.

Indonesia is one of the world's biggest contributors of plastic ... into the ocean. Some of it drifts hundreds of kilometres before washing up on the beaches on the holiday island -- especially ...

Braving the rain, volunteers collected trash by ... most populous island. Indonesia is among the world's largest contributors to plastic and marine pollution, with annual monsoons sweeping plastic ...

Charles Moore, an ocean researcher credited with discovering the Pacific garbage patch in 1997, said the Atlantic undoubtedly has comparable amounts of plastic. The east coast of the United States ...

The species is the largest sea turtle that migrates in tropical and temperate seas, including the Pacific Ocean ... ingesting white or transparent garbage. The plastic sheet had small holes ...

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B.C.’s coastal streams, including Saanich’s Douglas Creek, are oligotrophic explained Rutherford, meaning they offer very low ...