Beach pollution is a pressing global issue, with numerous shorelines suffering from contamination due to human activit ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

Otters are sensitive to water pollution, making them reliable indicators of water quality and ecosystem health.

The region of Central and South Asia, meanwhile, is home to the top seven most polluted cities in the world. Ferries pass in ...

Ocean acidification is mainly caused by carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere dissolving into the ocean. This leads to a lowering of the water's pH, making the ocean more acidic. Carbon dioxide is ...

The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), to be held in Nice, France, in June, could help to redefine global ocean governance. But the conference’s political statement — the UNOC3 ...

She has survived polluted water, famine, and even capture. In August 1970, Ocean Sun’s pod was herded ... kind of the scene of a massacre from their point of view,” Garrett said.

Ocean sciences span the physics, chemistry, and biology of marine systems. The field encompasses ocean circulation, energy dissipation, marine biology, ecology, biogeochemical cycles, water mass ...