In mid-October, a Seattle city consultant spotted cloudy water, syringes, tampon applicators and toilet paper flowing from the pipe that is supposed to carry rainwater into south Lake Union. A ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. After however many months spent indoors with three roommates and one 13-gallon trash can, my big ...

On Aug. 4, 2015, I walked with a friend at Great Kills Beach. The walk from Crooke's Point along the beach to the main parking lot took approximately 45 minutes. We found an accumulation of dozens of ...

Maybe it’s the shortage of toilet paper. Or maybe people don’t know so-called flushable wipes aren’t so sanitary when they create a ‘fatberg’ in the pipes. Plastic debris, including tampon applicators ...

The syringe needles, condoms, and tampon applicators that washed up on Dockweiler State Beach in September had been sitting in a storm drain for 10 years, according to a report.On Sept. 15, a heavy ...