Pollution

A survey recently mapped a vast industrial dumping ground in the ocean basin between the Los Angeles coast and Catalina Island.

To avoid a collapse, regulators are dumping the reservoir water into Tampa Bay.

The chemicals that tore a hole in the ozone layer are set to make a comeback in the late 21st century, in a process accelerated by climate change.

Israel's Mediterranean coastline has been littered with tar as the result of an oil spill off the coast, putting marine life and those cleaning it up at risk.

A new report finds that microplastic debris is twice as abundant in the deep ocean as it is on the sea surface.

A record-size hole in the ozone layer has been detected over the North Pole, but it should disappear in a few weeks.

Very little is known about how plastic moves under the ocean's surface. But that's where 99% of it ends up, and scientists are trying to model how it flows.

Scientists compared Lego bricks that washed up from the ocean with mint-condition bricks and found that the blocks can survive underwater for 100 to 1,300 years.

A beach in India is coated in knee-deep foam that experts warn is toxic.

Whale experts who visited the scene described the amount of plastic in the animal's body as 'horrific.'

Hot water is killing Florida's coral reefs. But it's not the only factor bleaching them white.

No one is talking about this killer of sharks and rays.

Researchers have discovered yet another new form of plastic pollution infesting Earth's oceans and beaches — and it's real crusty.

When you drop your plastic waste into the recycling bin, where does it go?

Researchers dug holes in the sand. The holes were filled with plastic.

The biggest threat to seabirds isn't plastic straws. It's balloons.

A 210-foot-long (64 meters) monster made from grease and used baby-wipes has clogged up a sewer in Sidmouth in southwestern England.