15 Things We’ve Dumped Into The Ocean That Should Terrify You

Plastic waste is one of the most visible signs of ocean pollution, breaking down into microplastics that infiltrate the ...
USA Today

Feds fine ship company $2 million for dumping oil and garbage into ocean off U.S. coast

A foreign ship company that dumped garbage barrels and thousands of gallons of bilge water into the ocean off the coast of California has been ordered to pay millions in fines, U.S. officials ...
Science Daily

How pollution may remain in water after oil spill cleanups

The way oil drops break up at the water's surface means some oil may not get cleaned up after a spill. Oil drops from underwater oil spills can break into tinier droplets at the surface that remain ...
The Conversation

Oil pollution in North Sea is ‘grossly underestimated’, suggests new report

Rosie Williams receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. In recent decades, there has been a gradual decline in the number of oil spills and the volume of oil discharged from ...
TechCrunch

Cerulean empowers ocean pollution watchdogs with orbital observation

The vastness of the ocean allows polluters to evade detection in all but the most egregious violations. SkyTruth aims to change that with Cerulean, an orbital monitoring platform for coastal waters ...
The Conversation

I watched a simulated oil spill in the Indian Ocean – here’s how island and coastal countries worked together to avoid disaster

Kate Sullivan de Estrada receives funding from Research England’s Policy Support Fund allocation to the University of Oxford via the Public Policy Challenge Fund. Her project under the Fund is titled ...
Center for Biological Diversity

New Mexico Creates School Health Buffer to Protect Against Oil, Gas Pollution

SANTA FE, N.M.— New Mexico Public Lands Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard announced an executive order today that bans new oil and gas leasing on state lands within one mile of schools and other ...