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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

As a long-tail boat arrives at a fishing village on the southern Thai island of Koh Chang, residents gather to sell their ...

Fu Junsheng collects plastic that washes up on China’s Miaodao islands and turns it into art that highlights the problem of ...

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