The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With 171 trillion pieces of plastic amounting to 1 million to 1.7 million tons currently floating in it, ...

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, at least 14 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year. That plastic makes up 80 per cent of all marine debris, which ...

A study shows forever chemicals inside seabirds near Antarctica, proving pollution spreads globally and reaches even the most ...

By Sean Mowbray Earlier this year, a spate of deaths in Florida caused by Vibrio vulnificus, known as the flesh-eating ...

WWF's statement on the commitment by the government of Norway at the Our Ocean Conference to work for the establishment of a global, legally binding treaty by 2023 to combat marine plastic pollution.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is organising an official side event at the UN Ocean Conference 2022, in cooperation with the Circulate Initiative and the Incubation Network, to discuss actions ...

The Swedish coast guard on Thursday boarded a Liberia-flagged bulk carrier suspected of dumping waste in the Baltic Sea, Sweden's civil defence minister said."This is a clear example of how the coast ...

The world’s oceans are choking on mountains of debris, and Indonesia’s marine environment is one of the worst victims. Indonesia has the dubious honor of being the second biggest marine polluter in ...

Marine biologists have found that reducing nutrient pollution in coastal marine environments should help protect kelp forests from the damaging effects of rising CO2. University of Adelaide marine ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new report suggests that the noise pollution produced by deep-sea mining activities could have far-reaching effects on the marine environment, ...