Imagine you’re driving down a forest road here in Maine, and the driver of the car in front of you throws a bag full of trash out their window. Witnessing this careless act might upset you, but ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University are investigating the stranding of three marine animals that washed ashore ...

In recent years, heart-rending images of dead or dying sea mammals and fish, their stomachs stuffed with plastic, have ...

Researchers have found hedgehog bodies are full of environmental pollutants, including some of the most hazardous to human ...

Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate ...

Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

In recent weeks, hundreds of sea lions, dolphins and other animals have turned up in the sand dead or seriously ill, alarming ...

A dolphin found dead along a coastal North Carolina creek was killed after a discarded plastic bag got lodged in its stomach, according to experts at N.C. State University.

New Yorkers are required to compost all their organic waste under a sanitation department rule that went into effect back in ...

A woman was arrested in connection with the drowning death of her pet schnauzer at Orlando airport in December.

According to The Independent, the incident took place in December last year at Orlando International Airport where authorities responded after a report of a dead animal in the women's bathroom ...