Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

Oil spills rarely travel more than 300 km from their source before natural processes break them down. Ixtoc I, a 1979 spill ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines.

The ocean floor is becoming a massive plastic dump, with debris accumulating in deep-sea canyons and harming marine life.

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 ...

They wantonly spilled oil into the ocean, lied to federal regulators and bent the rules, prosecutors say. Now they’re looking at serious prison time for their crimes against the environment. Yay!

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 ...

A fishing boat captain must pay after being accused of polluting California waters, officials said. 지원 최 Unsplash A fishing boat captain has been ordered to pay a fine after being accused of dumping ...

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 ...

Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies - Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering, University of Southampton The ocean has long been treated as boundless – a frontier for ...