On a Philippines beach, barefoot children jumped and played on shoals of plastic washed ashore in previous typhoons.

The island has just 140 inhabitants. It got mains electricity only in 1992 and an undersea cable to the UK electrical grid in ...

Using a dataset of 3,500 images, they trained a deep-learning model to recognize the extent of plastic beach litter based on measurements of shapes and colors in the images. A technique known as ...

As storm clouds gathered on a forgotten beach in China's Miaodao islands, artist Fu Junsheng picked his way through piles of ...

On the beach lies a motorcycle helmet ... thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you probably contribute to.

By 2050, the world is expected to generate more than enough plastic pollution to cover the entire island of Manhattan with a ...

Take a stroll down any major beach and it likely won’t be long before you stumble upon some abandoned refuse. Old water bottles, trash bags, straws, and countless other variations of plastic ...

While photos of littered beaches and floating garbage patches are unsettling, perhaps the most problematic plastic is barely ...

The plaintiffs include Leonard Hochstein, a plastic surgeon who has appeared on “Real Housewives of Miami,” and Sinan Tuna, ...

As storm clouds gathered on a forgotten beach in China's Miaodao islands, artist Fu Junsheng picked his way through piles of ...