"It’s important." Nonprofit pulls 1,000 tons of harmful material out of ocean: 'One of the biggest challenges facing our time ...

A new study offers the first estimate of nanoplastic pollution in the ocean. There’s a lot. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey What do human brains, placentas and dolphin breath have in common? Signs of plastic ...

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

In the wake of the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, small-scale French fishers reflect on risk, pollution and the inimitable joy of working on the water. Can Bulunt, who has been fishing since ...

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 ...

The world's oceans are racing towards their tipping point with every region now under threat from the triple planetary crisis ...

The largest migration on Earth stores carbon in the ocean : Short Wave The twilight zone of the ocean is a mysterious place. At 200-1000 meters below the surface, it's a tough place to study. That's ...