Sad news from the sea: The world’s largest collection of ocean garbage, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is getting bigger. The colossal collection of floating plastic trash is located halfway between ...

Artificial floating wetlands naturally filter water from contaminants and excess nutrients. There are about a dozen in the state, and the Missouri Department of Conservation wants to add more. On a ...

Scientists are finding more evidence of a new, insidious form of plastic pollution: melted plastic that has melded with rocks, coral and other naturally occurring material in coastal areas. Samples of ...