"This kind of source-tracking can be applied globally." Scientists make troubling discovery after studying 'mermaid tears' in ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

With trillions of pieces of plastic littering oceans, threatening ocean and life and economic opportunity, drones, satellites ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (WKRC) - Scientists made a chilling discovery when they tested 13 sharks for cocaine and every single one came back positive. Yes, you read that correctly, and no, this isn't a ...

Even if plastic pollution stopped entirely today, floating plastic would remain on the surface of the sea for 100 years, ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

Even if humans cut emissions enough to reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming ...

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have unveiled a tool that forecasts sewage-contamination levels at beaches in south San Diego County.

THE Philippine capital has been included in the 30 Cities Program of The Ocean Cleanup (TOC)—a global initiative aimed at drastically reducing plastic waste flowing from rivers into the world’s ...

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 ...