If you've visited a modern beach, you've likely seen the depressing amount of plastic trash that clutters the sand. One of the worst problems is microplastics — tiny pieces of plastic that can ...

When photographer Mandy Barker returned to the English beach where ... pieces of plastic waste and photographing them on a plain background, Barker found that the trash became shocking again.

After rounding up some typical, and barnacle-encrusted, plastic trash from beaches in Beaufort and nearby Atlantic Beach, N.C., the researchers put them under the sonar transponder on the Duke Marine ...

Just after dawn in Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, trash pickers ... in his first beach cleanup, on the Isle of Man. While other volunteers zoomed in on the plastic bottles and bags ...