Scotland has designated 37% of its waters as Marine Protected Areas, but destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling continue in most of these zones ...

Oil spills rarely travel more than 300 km from their source before natural processes break them down. Ixtoc I, a 1979 spill ...

A new study warns that microplastics are diminishing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide, thereby weakening a vital natural defence against the climate crisis. Researchers found that ...

A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners predicts that plastic pollution will more than double over the next 15 years — the equivalent of dumping nearly a garbage truck full of ...

Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific evidence, we see how microplastics permeate every sample of beach sand across ...

Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies - Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering, University of Southampton The ocean has long been treated as boundless – a frontier for ...

Whale sharks, already listed as endangered, face an array of human-induced threats such as fishing bycatch, vessel strikes, and habitat degradation among them. Pollution adds another, more insidious ...

How plastic sinks to the deep sea — over time, sunlight and waves break large plastic items into tiny fragments that stick to marine snow. These particles gradually sink through the ocean, carrying ...

STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- On a sunny beach along Monterey Bay, Stanford researcher Dr. Matt Savoca and his team are tracking a devastating ocean polluter: microplastics. They're hoping to follow the ...

(WSVN) - Would you like to learn to scuba dive and help save the ocean? A free program is turning divers into coral crusaders. 7’s Heather Walker shows us how in this 7Spotlight. On the surface, it ...

Videos show the moments first responders and Good Samaritans rescued a mother and her two children from drowning. The incident occurred on Sunday, Oct. 5, at the beach in Ocean City, New Jersey. While ...

The study showed that although genetics is a main factor, extended exposure to nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter might contribute to higher rates of nearsightedness among children. Also, ...