Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean ... fly onto the island inside in their stomachs each year, according to Brown. The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic.

Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean - bags, cups, straws, and many other items from the daily life of every person. But despite such a tremendous figure, scientists have ...

marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily ... They’ve been towing finemesh nets through slicks off the Big Island and analyzing each haul. Here, a scribbled filefish, about ...

Ocean waters ... Navassa Island and the Flower Garden Banks in the Gulf of Mexico. • Launched a national campaign for heightened regulations and limits on plastic production and blocked the ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

Ocean waters ... Navassa Island and the Flower Garden Banks in the Gulf of Mexico. • Launched a national campaign for heightened regulations and limits on plastic production and blocked the ...