Whether you see someone litter on purpose or on accident you can be a great citizen and tell them to pick it up. If you do, ...

Some animals now live in a world of plastics—like these hyenas scavenging at a landfill in Harar, Ethiopia. They listen for garbage trucks and find much of their food in trash. PHOTOGRAPH BY ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Millions of tonnes of rubbish is being washed out to sea every year, severely harming millions of marine animals. We look at ...

But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you ... But can make it into the bellies of sea animals and ultimately the humans that eat those animals. Worldwide, researchers have ...

Debris produced by human activity has now been spotted at a depth of 5,112 meters (3.2 miles) in the Mediterranean Sea.

(A map of the world’s ocean gyres is available at ... seals and other animals. Households and communities can prevent trash from getting into waterways and becoming marine debris by making ...

“Trash and debris flowing into the ocean is a threat to marine life and ... and carried downstream can kill fish and other marine animals, damage coral reefs, and make humans sick.