Recent research on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is reshaping how scientists and the public understand ocean pollution.

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 ...

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Wastewater pollution levels are higher inside many marine protected areas than in nearby unprotected areas, according to a ...

The footage actually shows a years-old video from another continent, said to depict one of the most polluted rivers in the ...

A study of microplastics in U.S. coastal waters found that residents of counties adjacent to the most heavily microplastic-polluted waters had significantly higher rates of Type 2 diabetes, coronary ...

Off the coast of Indonesia, the Philippines, and dozens of other tropical nations, coral reefs sit inside boundaries drawn ...

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 ...

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 ...

At issue was a regulatory dispute over the permitting standards used by the Environmental Protection Agency. Justice Amy Coney Barrett dissented, noting that the law authorizes the EPA to enforce ‘any ...

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 ...