An engineer explains landfill science and why landfills are surprisingly a low-impact way of dealing with our garbage.

Human trash can be a cockatoo’s treasure. In Sydney, the birds have learned how to open garbage bins and toss trash around in the streets as they hunt for food scraps. People are now fighting back.

Boyan Slat, CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, talks about the new and improved river plastic Interceptors and the nonprofit's plans for building and deploying more of them around the world. I'm an ...

TRASH features the work of 12 artists from around the globe focused on the timely topic of trash. The exhibit empowers kids to take the lead in their families on talking about environmental and social ...

A plastic bag drifted more than 36,000 feet below the ocean's surface and landed in the Mariana Trench. Scientists believe it to be the deepest known piece of plastic garbage. "The influence of ...

Cleaning up ocean pollution is no simple task, as an effort to fish plastic out of the Pacific Ocean is revealing. In September, scientists launched a 600-meter-long boom meant to herd plastic debris ...

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