“It's gorgeous,” says Nic Vanderzyl, the University of Hawaii at Hilo student who discovered the beach's plastic. Vanderzyl saw the new beach as an opportunity to study new sediment that was ...

Hawaii saw more than 9 million visitors last year. Those tourists’ first stops are often big-box and convenience stores, where they buy bottled water, plastic ... devices and beach toys ...

Small, sea-worn pieces of plastic lie everywhere on the sand's surface ... who is one half of the locally-based duo who recently founded Beach - short for Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign, ...

An ocean conservationist in Hawaii has sparked debate after sharing footage that highlights just how much plastic debris is ... through the sand on a local beach. With the caption: "When I say ...

Megan Lamson, a program director at the Hawaii Wildlife Fund ... white sand beach and crystal blue water – all littered with plastic. He's seen dead birds and turtles tangled in debris ...

NOAA Marine Mammal Response approach a dead sperm whale at Lydgate Beach in Kauai County, Hawaii on Saturday (Hawaii ... tons (31.9 million metric tons) of plastic pollution is produced around ...