Plastic pollution reduces fishing revenues and threatens the livelihoods of thousands of vulnerable coastal families.

Up to 45% of global economic activity occurs in coastal areas.

Without rapid, coordinated global action, ocean health will continue to decline, threatening climate stability, biodiversity ...

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 ...

Ghana's plastic pollution crisis is no longer confined to littered streets, clogged drains and flooded communities, according ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastics are piling up all around us, and now, scientists say, they're also piling up on the ocean floor. New research estimates ...

When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists' attention. Working together, they linked the ...

Art to Save the Sea” — on display through Feburary 2027 — features massive sculpture made of plastic materials collected from ...

Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality is more complex and far more persistent. Even if we stopped all plastic ...

Imagine being able to check the likelihood of ocean pollution the same way you check the weather. It is an idea that a team of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego put ...