The Maersk Tender is one of two ships employed by the non-profit group The Ocean Cleanup to tackle the seemingly ...

A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution -- by 91% and plastic-related ...

Research sheds new light on the spread of microplastics, revealing a surprising "hitchhiking" mechanism that could impact ...

Climate change is already causing native fish species to flee northward or die, and it’s only expected to get worse, local ...

Penn State researchers found that microplastic levels in freshwater have risen with global plastic production, though they ...

"This is incredibly exciting, as up to now we have not had a tool for detecting plastics in coastal environments from space." ...

Satellites have long been used to track plastic in the ocean but have struggled to accurately spot pollution against a sandy background. Now a newly published algorithm might change all that, and lead ...

Researchers used a wide-scale acoustic mapping technique to track capelin, left, and cod populations. In the largest predation event ever recorded, researchers observed capelin shoaling off the ...

As they drift and melt in the Southern Ocean, they create a unique environment ... a flow dynamicist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and co-author of a 2023 review ...