Firstly, ocean trash is by and large made up of plastics, accounting for around 80 percent of it.Some estimates state there are tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic in the ...

Mount Everest has a mountain of a problem: human waste. And not just leftover camping meals, beer and fuel cans, but human poo, too. So, how much poopy and other garbage calls the planet's highest ...

Decades of buried trash is releasing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, at higher rates than previously estimated, the researchers said. By Hiroko Tabuchi They’re vast expanses that can be as ...