Unfortunately, as far as the Mediterranean is concerned, it would not be wrong to say that "not a single inch of it is clean." ...

Explore the urgent issue of ocean plastic pollution and its impact on marine life and human health. Find out how to help.

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

North Sea pollution / H.A. Cole -- A pollution survey of the Trondheim Fjord, as influenced by sewage and the pulp mill industry / G. Berge, R. Ljøen and K.H. Palmork -- Pollution in the Baltic / B.I.

Growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland, the shadow of the Piper Alpha disaster loomed large over our community. The tragic explosion of the oil rig platform in 1988 claimed the lives of 167 people. Back ...

Along the final stretch of the Seyhan River, in southern Türkiye, plastic bits in various colors dot the water and sediment. When the river bends, shredded plastic, degraded by the elements, forms ...

Simon Fraser University researchers have uncovered fiberglass contamination in a key estuary on Vancouver Island, raising concerns about how an as-yet-overlooked contaminant could affect aquatic birds ...

A wave channel experiment used a zoom lens camera and a custom Python script to process imagery of four different zones: wave generation, shoaling and breaking, air detained by a plunging jet of water ...

The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With 171 trillion pieces of plastic amounting to 1 million to 1.7 million tons currently floating in it, ...

The Swedish coast guard on Thursday boarded a Liberia-flagged bulk carrier suspected of dumping waste in the Baltic Sea, Sweden's civil defence minister said."This is a clear example of how the coast ...

Pollution from rivers in Wales is impacting the marine environment and "suffocating our sea", campaigners have warned. WWF Cymru said excess nutrients from farming and sewage were leading to the ...