Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

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 ...

New Russian threats in Kherson bring the effects of the conflict on marine pollution back to the forefront. Research published last summer identified at least 70 chemicals from weapons in the waters ...

Ithaca, NY— Artificial light at night has a profound effect land-based life--from birds to fireflies to humans. But a new study suggests we need to widen our view to include light pollution's effect ...

Founder and CEO of Save a Fishie in Cape Town, Zoë Prinsloo, was one of the panelists at The Our Oceans Conference in Busan, Korea, recently. IOL caught up with Prinsloo to ask her a few questions ...

Testing for levels of microplastic contamination in marine plankton aims to help develop new ways to assess and manage the rising global pollution problem, experts say. Researchers examined the ...

Marine pollution has emerged as one of the most pressing environmental challenges. For a country like India, with a coastline ...

Whale sharks, already listed as endangered, face an array of human-induced threats such as fishing bycatch, vessel strikes, and habitat degradation among them. Pollution adds another, more insidious ...

Elizabeth Pearmain is based at the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey, and receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council C-CLEAR DTP. This study was led by a ...