It was the first time in the campaign against people the United States accuses of drug smuggling at sea that American forces ...

Once seen as a barren plastic wasteland, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now a thriving habitat for coastal species. These organisms, previously confined to shorelines, are establishing persistent, ...

Cardboard boxes, used bags, plastic bottles and rags piled up on street corners as some residents sorted through the waste ...

The world’s largest garbage dump isn’t on land. It is twice the size of Texas and floats in the Pacific Ocean. Douglas A.

To this day, the oceans are still one of the most mysterious places on the planet. Because they cover a whopping 70% of the ...

We don’t know the number of islands in the ocean, but it's well into the hundreds of thousands. Researchers have just found ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A piece of Alabama washed up on an English beach this weekend—and it wasn’t what most people would expect to find thousands of miles from home. Ryan Stalker was walking along ...

Residents of at least eight Long Island towns and two cities have one less thing to worry about when shoveling snow on Monday: putting out the trash. Officials in the Town of Hempstead, the Town of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — With New York City’s trash containerization deadline months away, more Staten Island residents are reporting issues with delivery of their official NYC trash bin. Recently, ...

Intended as China’s version of Dubai’s palm-shaped artificial island, Ocean Flower Island is a $12 billion monument to debt-fueled economic excess. The sprawling Ocean Flower Island project in Hainan, ...