A global study led by UC Riverside uncovers 250 human-made chemicals in oceans, from industrial chemicals to pharmaceuticals.

Boyan Slat made waves when he was just a teenager with an audacious dream to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste. Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The Ocean ...

Ocean Conservancy created a Wildlife Impact Calculator to help you understand the real benefits of your beach cleanups. If ...

The dispute centers around a technology used on some Carnival ships called open-loop scrubbers. They’re known for reducing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic pollution could linger on ocean surfaces for over 100 years, researchers warn Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are ...

When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists' attention. Working together, they linked the ...

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

Imagine being able to check the likelihood of ocean pollution the same way you check the weather. It is an idea that a team of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego put ...

Pollution entering the ocean from the Tijuana River has been a problem for decades, but beach closures have increased in recent years Environmental educators say the closures are hurting kids and ...

AI is helping scientists detect pollution earlier by combining data from water, air, and soil to spot environmental damage ...

MACH Engineering reports that industrial water pollution remains a significant issue in the U.S., with many businesses ...