Mount Everest clean-up team picks up 3 tonnes of garbage

25.000 people work together to get rid of plastic waste from Bali's beaches. This cleanup was initiated by the Wijsen sisters. Kadek Surya Sanjaya reports from Denpasar.

Indonesia is confronting a massive plastic garbage problem. Recently, a video made by an Australian tourist showed a manta ray feeding among pieces of trash at Manta Point in Bali.

The people of Kolomna have been protesting against Moscow refuse being dumped nearby their city. Now, vocal anti-garbage activists have had their homes raided and searched. DW's Miodrag Soric reports.

Defying intimidation attempts, thousands of people in Arkhangelsk, a city some 1,200 kilometers north of Moscow, have taken to the streets to protest plans to ship Moscow's garbage to their province.

Calling herself "Debra Debris" or "Residue Rapoport," the artist turns other people's trash and simple materials like paper towels and toilet paper rolls into couture-style fashion.

A special team has been tasked with cleaning up the world's highest mountain, littered with garbage from decades of commercial mountaineering. Everest is sometimes described as the world's highest rubbish dump.

The first black African woman to climb Everest says that people from her continent must seek "amazing" new challenges to prove they can compete with the best.

Human traffic jam: Is over tourism killing climbers on Mount Everest?

Activists in the town of Shies, in northwestern Russia, have built a tent city to prevent the construction of a landfill. Investors claim the garbage dump's environmental impact will be considered but the skeptical activists are standing their ground.

Mounds of trash piled high on the streets of Tripoli provide an unwelcome reminder to residents of the steady decline of public services in the city.

Four Sherpa guides are setting off to attempt to climb to the top of Mount Everest in less than a week. Only a handful of climbers have reached the summit during the brutal winter season.

Hundreds of mountain guides and expedition workers have been robbed of their prime earning season as Nepal shuts down the Himalayas - including Everest - to fight the coronavirus outbreak. Nepal, which is now in lockdown and has four confirmed cases of coronavirus so far, announced it was suspending permits for all mountain expeditions on March 12, just as Sherpas were preparing for the season.