The landfill closed in 1978. The garbage, 100 feet deep in some places, was covered with dirt roughly 4 feet thick. A barrier ...

Pristine paradise to rubbish dump: the same Pacific island, 23 years apart. A few weeks ago, the world woke to the story of ...

A plastic island twice the size of Texas is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Ecopsychology becomes an important new ethical movement for increasing social self-consciousness.

The island is in the Caribbean Sea, not the Pacific Ocean, therefore it cannot be part of the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Thus, the above social media posts have miscaptioned the photo.

This South Pacific island of rubbish shows why we need to quit our plastic habit A remote South Pacific island has the ...

Coastal communities and beaches in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama had the highest levels of contamination from plastics in the ocean.