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 ...

Poor drainage, unregulated construction, and indiscriminate waste disposal leave even this mountain city vulnerable to rising ...

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 Lagos State Government has attributed the flash flooding witnessed across parts of the city to a natural phenomenon known ...

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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 ...