Nepal is giving up on a carrot-and-stick experiment to clean up Mount Everest and moving instead to a straight fee. For the past 11 years, climbers have had to post a $4,000 deposit, refundable only ...

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 ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has criticized local authorities for their slow response to Bali’s escalating waste ...

Accumulations of trash lie below the tranquil waters of Lake Malawi National Park, a problem local environmentalists say likely extends throughout Lake Malawi, the world’s fourth-largest freshwater ...

Construction machines are working around the clock to remove tonnes of trash clogging the Drina River in eastern Bosnia. The problem is not new. Every winter, garbage carried by swollen rivers in the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Every winter, construction machines work around the clock to clear tons of garbage — plastic, furniture, medical ...

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 ...

Every time I pass a pile of garbage on our streets, what I smell is not just rot. I smell system failure. And we keep debating waste management as if we still have the luxury of choosing only elegant ...