"Hawaii is on the frontlines of the plastic crisis, as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre collects marine debris and delivers [it] to our shorelines—this is debris from countries across the Pacific, ...

Some 80,000 metric tons of trash comprising 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic - known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - were Friday floating in the sea, the Netherlands-based Ocean Cleanup Foundation ...

The Pacific region is growing in strategic importance with both the US and China increasing their influence especially around security and trade relationships. The policies of the region’s ...

The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the ...

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. 35,180 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?35,180 people played the daily Crossword ...

Photo courtesy of The Ocean Cleanup Project Plus, once plastic is in the ocean, it accumulates in “giant circular currents” called gyres, which Slat said ... enormous build-ups like the Great Pacific ...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (9 April 2025) — Economic growth in the Pacific is projected to moderate to 3.9% in 2025 and 3.6% in 2026, according to the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) April 2025, the Asian ...

Eastern North Pacific gray whales cruise the Pacific coastline every year as they migrate 6,000 miles north from the Baja peninsula to their summer feeding grounds in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.