At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the ...

As more countries ban waste imports, plastic waste generators like the US will need to find better solutions. A few states ...

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Five large patches of trash swirling in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans serve as a crushing reminder that the ocean bears the brunt of the plastic pollution crisis, with more than 11 million ...

Around 1.5 billion people around the world do not have access to garbage collection services, and how they dispose of their plastic waste has become a serious environmental problem. Most of these ...

Boyan Slat has a plan to rid the ocean of plastic pollution, this coming El Niño could be a monster and more big stories ...

GENEVA — As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United ...

Duarte Pita Dias is based in CBS News' London bureau, where he works across digital platforms and for TV broadcasts. Senior Coordinating Producer of Climate and Environmental Coverage Tracy J. Wholf ...

An environmentally conscious biotechnologist in Kazakhstan has raised an army of trash-eating black soldier flies to help clean up the country's struggling waste management industry. In Kazakhstan, ...

If you spot new nets in the Wicomico River, they are part of Salisbury‘s new approach to reducing pollution in its public waterways. The City of Salisbury’s Department of Infrastructure and ...

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