A photograph genuinely shows the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” that grew to “be twice the size of Texas.” Rating: Miscaptioned (About this rating?) Context: Though the photograph is authentic, it was ...

In Hawaii, a volunteer cleanup crew is hauling more junk off Kauai’s beaches than ever before. In the 2024 Surfrider Foundation report, the nonprofit reported that its volunteers had removed more than ...

When researchers traveled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches. Almost all of ...