Most people are familiar with the problem of ocean pollution. From enormous oil spills to huge dumpings of plastics, our ...

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

The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

Marine oil spills are among the most severe environmental hazards, threatening aquatic ecosystems, coastal economies, and biodiversity. Traditional detection methods, based on manual observation, ship ...

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 ...

Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found. Scientists ...

Research identifies ocean upwelling as key driver behind massive sargassum blooms in the Atlantic, revealing new marine ...

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 ...

One of the coolest pieces of irony about our planet is that the ocean covers most of the surface of the Earth, and yet, the ...