This tiny island with no humans is getting buried in plastic trash
Henderson Island, a remote locale in the South Pacific, is covered with 37.7 million pieces of plastic debris -- the highest density ever recorded in the world for a beach.
Gigantic, floating screen sets course to sift plastic from oceans
If the prototype is successful, a full-scale 100-kilometer-long barrier will be strung out in the Pacific Ocean to collect some 68 million kilograms of floating plastic and trash.
Bellies full of microplastic rob baby fish of their basic instincts
European perch stuff themselves with microplastics rather than natural food, derailing their development, according to new research from Sweden.
