In August 2020, Biscayne Bay suffered a massive fish kill caused by oxygen-depleted waters, marking a tipping point from decades of unchecked pollution. Five years later, despite some signs of ...

More than a decade since the start of the longest ocean warming event ever recorded, scientists are still working to ...

Sick sea stars are lethargic, lose their arms and disintegrate into gooey masses. More than 90% of sunflower sea stars were killed.

Helge Niemann, a professor of geochemistry at Utrecht University and an author of the study, sounded the alarm about the ...

The ocean comprises 70% of the planet and has a profound impact on all life on Earth. It regulates the global climate, produces most of the oxygen we breathe, absorbs carbon dioxide, and supports a ...

Transparent-faced fish drift through dusky waters. Snowlike flecks of dead plants sift down from the world above. Soft sponges peek through the soot of the seafloor.

Plastics are a "grave, growing and under-recognised danger" for human health, according to a new expert report. The Lancet ...

Nations kicked off a meeting on Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis ...

Light pollution confuses and disorients seabirds around the globe, luring them towards land — and potentially dangerous situations. In the Westman Islands ...

Chemicals released from car tires as they wear down are washing into rivers, estuaries and the sea and they could be ...

Negotiations for a global treaty to end plastic pollution are now in overtime, and UN member states are set to meet again in ...

Chemicals released from car tyres as they wear down are washing into rivers, estuaries and the sea and they could be disrupting life at the base of ...