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

In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer Caroline Power captured the picture, which shows a large area ...

The world now discards 250 million pounds of clothes, 220 aluminum cans and three million tires every day — but it’s plastics ...

Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost one million pounds of plastic refuse from the area since launching its ...

A dump truck overturned on State Highway 70 on Wednesday morning, leaving the driver with non-life-threatening injuries, ...

Crews who helped build the Newport Bay trash interceptor say it has collected about a dozen dumpsters full of debris and ...

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 ...

The first ever assessment of litter in Mediterranean's deepest place located in Greece's eastern Ionian Sea has detected huge ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

domestically consumed plastic is so mishandled that 365 tons of it are believed to enter the sea every hour. And yet, deep in the highlands of Java, there are hellscapes of imported Western waste ...