Alexander Clapp, author of new nonfiction book 'Waste Wars,' tracks the world-wide blackmarket trade of our garbage ...

In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

The New Orleans Police Department has arrested a Slidell businessman accused of illegal dumping in New Orleans. According to ...

The bold question-askers at What If explore what happens when humans dump 3.5 billion tons of trash into the deep ocean.

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

Based on all the records we kept, we controlled 100 percent of the trash that flowed across the border,” said Romo. “By volume, plastics was the number one, by weight, other ...

In Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, thousands of informal workers collect scrap metal from illegal dumpsites to survive. These ...

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...