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 ...

Ocean pollution is quietly draining energy from seabirds’ cells, as mercury and forever chemicals disrupt mitochondria even ...

Plastic waste has quietly reshaped the oceans you depend on, and a new global study from Tulane University shows the danger runs deeper than floating bottles and bags. Scientists have now mapped ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mercury (Hg) is an environmental concern in the Arctic, where high concentrations are found in top predators such as polar bears and toothed whales. Despite declining atmospheric Hg emissions since ...

Plastic waste in the ocean can break down into microplastics, which researchers measured near U.S. coastlines to study possible links to higher rates of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

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 ...

Over one quarter of Europe's 20 most highly-fished marine species will be under extreme pressure by 2100 if nothing is done to simultaneously halt climate change, overfishing, and mercury pollution, ...