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, ...

The Climate Action Alliance of the Valley is organizing a Climate Action Celebration and Call to Action at the Massanutten Regional Library.

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 ...

When oil and gas are pumped from the ground, they come up with briny fluid called “produced water,” many times saltier than the sea and laden with chemicals.

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 ...

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

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

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.