Wastewater pollution levels are higher inside many marine protected areas than in nearby unprotected areas, according to a ...

Non-profit clean-up app developer Eyesea has expanded its offering to keep seafarers engaged in clean-ups with a new tool to ...

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, at least 14 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year. That plastic makes up 80 per cent of all marine debris, which ...

A new study finds that more than 70 percent of these protected zones are exposed to high levels of wastewater pollutants, ...

Experts in the fight against plastic pollution are meeting this week to develop an international network of high-tech laboratories that can monitor marine microplastics, and examine other progress ...

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 ...

Testing for levels of microplastic contamination in marine plankton aims to help develop new ways to assess and manage the rising global pollution problem, experts say. Researchers examined the ...

Off the coast of Indonesia, the Philippines, and dozens of other tropical nations, coral reefs sit inside boundaries drawn ...

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 ...

Marine plastic pollution is a massive environmental issue, with a plastic smog of an estimated 170 trillion particles afloat in the world’s oceans. This highlights how urgently we need to develop ...

The adage “out of sight, out of mind” has long summed up humans’ attitude to dumping personal and industrial waste. In a 1974 Scientific American article, the oceanographer Willard Bascom wrote that ...

Discover how ocean plastic isn't the core problem we think it is. While plastic constitutes about 80 percent of marine ...