Henderson Island has no inhabitants. The nearest major population center is more than 3,100 miles away. Yet the desolate Pacific island is one of the densest hubs of plastic pollution on the planet.

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That non-stop slurry of plastic pollution has been steadily flowing into our oceans for the last 60+ years. With an average of 557 pieces of trash per square yard, Henderson Island holds the world ...

The vast “garbage patches” that result resemble more of a soup of plastic than an island of trash. But the fate of plastic fibres – perhaps the smallest plastic fragments to reach the ocean ...

It's also begun its work on rivers, which are the main source of ocean pollution, Slat says. Some 80% of plastic pollution that flows from rivers stems from 1,000 rivers worldwide, according to ...

The 2010 Malaspina Expedition, a big ocean research project, found plastic over wide areas, but, overall, far less than researchers thought they’d find. For reasons that aren’t fully ...

Marine ecologists say plastic pollution in oceans has reached a crisis point, with an estimated 14 million tons of plastic entering the ocean every year, according to the International Union for ...

Following its successful “Swim Against Plastic” campaign in March, when endurance swimmer Sarah Ferguson set a new world record swimming around Chile’s Easter Island, Plastic Oceans ...

In a sign pollution affecting geology, researchers found melted plastic intertwined with rocks on Trindade Island. NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander agrees to record $285M contract extension with ...