Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Beachgoers have been warned against swimming off a two-mile (3km) section of the coast after a sewage pipe burst. The ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggests 27 ...

Water covers about 71% of Earth, and most of the pollution in it comes from the remaining 29% of land we live on. NOAA states that “80% of pollution to the marine environment comes from the land ...

To put that in perspective, researchers said very high levels could mean a bathtub-sized scoop of ocean water might contain 10 or more plastic fragments. When comparing counties with very high versus ...

Noise Pollution Rising At Sea. April 19, 2005 / 4:25 PM EDT / CBS/AP The ocean was flat and the winter darkness over Cape Cod Bay was unbroken by ship lights. But ...

Pollution can even reach the ocean through the air. As carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, some of it dissolves into the ocean, making the water more acidic. Sea animals are used to a ...

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

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.

Sir David Attenborough: The 60 Minutes Interview 13:39. Istanbul — Turkey's president has promised to rescue the Marmara Sea from an outbreak of "sea snot" that is alarming marine biologists and ...

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 ...