Toxins released by long-extinguished fossil fuel fires and gold smelters are showing up in the bodies of Arctic wildlife, ...

Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A study published ...

A team of planetary scientists, ecologists, and marine biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in ...

Oil spills may be dramatic and devastating, but they’re not the biggest contributor to ocean oil pollution — not by ... in more research — and not just after high-profile oil spills.

Oceans have absorbed the vast majority of the warming caused by burning fossil fuels and shielded societies from the full ...

Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic ... and is working to stop plastic pollution at the source, before it ever has a ...

Marine pollution, as distinct from overall water pollution, focuses on human-created products that enter the ocean. Before 1972, humans around the word spewed trash, sewage sludge, and chemical ...

A study by UC San Diego researchers reveals that pollutants found in the sewage-laden Tijuana River are ending up in the air ...

New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution ... ocean floor, where it accumulates ...

The world's oceans and waterways are littered with millions of tons of plastic pollution – but scientists in a study released Thursday say we should think twice before cleaning them up.

There is a lot less plastic pollution floating on the surface of the oceans, according to a recent ... “It’s going to take a really long time before these plastics actually are removed from ...

where it accumulates before being broken down into smaller pieces and mixed into ocean sediment. “We know that millions of tonnes of plastic waste enter our oceans every year but what we didn’t know ...