The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so packed with long-lasting plastic that dozens of coastal species are living, breeding and spreading on it — forming a new 'neopelagic' ecosystem that could ...

Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a different patch of garbage off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea — not the Pacific Ocean. For years, social media users ...

Human beings don’t live in a vacuum; we live in the world. This may explain, in part, why we have an emotional instinct to connect with nature. Ecopsychology sees the human and natural world as ...