Everything is connected in our oceans. New study uncovers mystery behind 'marine snow' and 'missing' substances in world's ...

"Ongoing and accelerating trends." Researchers issue warning after discovering powerful triple threat in ocean: 'Newly broken ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...

Many measures have been initiated to reduce plastic pollution in Norway. Only a few of them will lead to extensive change and ...

Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

Large, buoyant plastic items degrade over decades, shedding microplastics as they go. These tiny fragments may eventually ...

The team uses seawater and delicate mesh filters to painstakingly separate the buoyant plastic by hand. The goal is to ...

Water covers about 71% of Earth, and most of the pollution in it comes from the remaining 29% of land we live on. NOAA states that “80% of pollution to the marine environment comes from the land,” and ...

The Swedish coast guard on Thursday boarded a Liberia-flagged bulk carrier suspected of dumping waste in the Baltic Sea, Sweden's civil defence minister said."This is a clear example of how the coast ...

North Sea pollution / H.A. Cole -- A pollution survey of the Trondheim Fjord, as influenced by sewage and the pulp mill industry / G. Berge, R. Ljøen and K.H. Palmork -- Pollution in the Baltic / B.I.

New research finds that heavy pollution in Southeast Asia is suppressing rainfall over land while intensifying it over the ...

Scientists predict it could take more than 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface, according to new study ...