Marine litter is a serious environmental problem worldwide. Reducing it would require implementing a global monitoring system ...

Explore how pollution, acidification, and climate threats impact ocean health and marine life, and discover solutions to ...

Discover the latest findings from the International Marine Litter Research Unit as experts investigate how plastic waste ...

The world's oceans and waterways are littered with millions of tons of plastic pollution – but scientists in a study released Thursday say we should think twice before cleaning them up. In fact, the ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

A healthy and clean ocean is critical for coral reefs, coastal waters and the hundreds of thousands of species of sea creatures that call the underwater home. But scientists and researchers ...

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 ...

WWF welcomes the commitment by the Mediterranean states to eliminate pollution at sea from land-based sources, and to reduce the emissions of persistent organic pollutants (POP) by 50 percent by 2005.

Flames and thick black smoke were visible at the bow of the vessel. No sea pollution was immediately reported.

European countries have agreed on a maximum level of seabed litter permissible in EU territorial waters, with the new cap intended to help the bloc in a long-running fight against marine pollution. No ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ...