MOJAVE, Calif. — When we think of infrastructure, roads, bridges and broadband come to mind, but for one town, the biggest infrastructure issue isn’t any of these—it’s trash. From neighborhood trash ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Whatcom Creek is a treasure in Bellingham, but it's also getting trashed. Much of the garbage left on the streets makes its way to the waterway, and with the city not putting out ...

At first thought, volcanoes might seem like the perfect natural disposal system. They are incredibly hot, appear to swallow anything in their path, and seem limitless in their depth. So why not use ...

Thousands of pounds of trash is strewn across the world's highest peak. You don’t need a map to get to the Everest base camp, just follow the trash, says climber Dragana Rajblovic. Rajblovic knows ...

The City of Houston is spending $2 million on outside help to pick up trash. Other advocates say the city needs to be spending vastly more, namely by implementing a solid waste fee.

There is a pervasive tendency to define the current ecological crisis only as climate change and, subsequently, to view the related responsibility as dwelling on the governments and leaders of big ...

The discovery of a mountain of garbage near a highway is the latest example of what experts say is a growing problem of criminal organizations profiting from illegal dumping. By Jonathan Wolfe It ...

Officials in Dubrovnik, Croatia, say the strong currents of the Adriatic Sea washed ashore a vast amount of garbage, mostly from Albania, during a recent storm. By Adeel Hassan One country’s trash may ...