The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

The plastic swirls in giant gyres in the open oceans, collecting in “garbage patches” (though ... from Hong Kong beaches and layered her images for a phantasmagorical, deep-space eeriness.

Pollution is everyone's problem. For more disturbing photos of polluted areas, check out these images of China's contaminated water systems.

Scientific studies on nine major waterways reveal an 'alarming' pollution by small particles. For the first time, a bacterium ...

As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

In the distance, garbage trucks rolling in from the megacity ... PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER STACKPOLE, LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES After we’d steamed along for a while, Thompson reeled the ...