AUSTRALIA -- New research published Thursday estimates that roughly 414 million pieces of trash have washed ashore on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The research was published in the Scientific Reports ...

For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Bergen and its partners contributed to the national plastic cleanup effort, with this year’s cleanup targeting Lisle Lyngøy, an island near Hellesøy ...

Researchers have developed a new method for spotting plastic rubbish on beaches and successfully field-tested it on a remote stretch of coastline. The satellite imagery tool developed by Melbourne's ...

Henderson Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has not been inhabited by humans for centuries, but it is inhabited by trash. In fact, a newly released study says it's the area most densely ...

Things are changing in Thilafushi—including, perhaps most notably for residents of the Maldives, that toxic smoke. In September, the government managed to finally extinguish the fires burning on the ...

For conservationists, the message is clear: while community-led clean-ups are making a visible difference, protecting one of ...

A crew of engineers in the middle of the ocean will try to fix a device that was intended to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic have coalesced ...