Discover the alarming global crisis of plastic pollution and how it affects our oceans and rivers. This video explores the ...

Explore how pollution, acidification, and climate threats impact ocean health and marine life, and discover solutions to ...

Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, ...

An international team of researchers has highlighted the widespread damage human actions have caused to the world’s oceans, and in turn, to human health. The research, which appears in the Annals of ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

Publishing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, researchers at Kyushu University report that they have ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

Plastics are piling up all around us, and now, scientists say, they're also piling up on the ocean floor. New research estimates that up to 11 million metric tons (more than 12 tons) of plastic ...

Scientists have discovered the presence of chemical pollutants in some of the ocean’s deepest trenches, previously thought to be nearly untouched by human influence. In fact, they’ve found levels of ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded closely split Wednesday on San Francisco’s dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency over how to stop polluted water from flowing into the ...

Studies have shown that contaminated water that splashes on rocks or is churned by the surf in the ocean, releases dangerous ...

At issue was a regulatory dispute over the permitting standards used by the Environmental Protection Agency. Justice Amy Coney Barrett dissented, noting that the law authorizes the EPA to enforce ‘any ...