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

In the sunsoaked sands of Florida’s Forgotten Coast, a simple family outing turned into an unexpected lesson on nature’s ...

Just 100 companies account for most of the profits from the world's seas, researchers said on Wednesday, calling on them to ...

On one of the coldest mornings ever in Florida, a young green sea turtle flailed through freezing surf. Too stunned to swim, ...

All nations of the world had homework this year: submit new-and-improved plans to fight climate change. But the plans they handed in “have barely moved the needle” on reducing Earth’s future ...

A Keele University academic has called for the creation of a United Nations Ocean Agency to coordinate global action on the ...

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

The ocean surface retains a stubborn trace of our plastic waste. Even if we were to stop all pollution today, these residues ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

A new study finds that deep-sea mining waste in the ocean’s twilight zone could disrupt food webs and starve midwater ...