More than 350,000 chemicals are used worldwide, and many find their way into the ocean through plastic pollution. As plastics ...

Boyan Slat made waves when he was just a teenager with an audacious dream to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste. Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The Ocean ...

Sewage released into our rivers by water companies is a scandal with life and death consequences. Dirty Business shows how it ...

When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists' attention. Working together, they linked the ...

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

New research has shown that blue sharks’ intestines act like temporary holding tanks, trapping fibers long enough to build up significant amounts. Their epic migrations mean they can spread these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic pollution could linger on ocean surfaces for over 100 years, researchers warn Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Pollution entering the ocean from the Tijuana River has been a problem for decades, but beach closures have increased in recent years Environmental educators say the closures are hurting kids and ...