A host of environmental risks come with the sort of deep-sea mining operations eyed for about 100-plus miles offshore of the ...

Researchers examined more than 10,000 animal autopsies to figure out how much plastic is too much for ocean wildlife ...

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics—but how much is too much?

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly.

New research warns that less than three sugar cubes’ worth of plastics could be fatal for seabirds like the Atlantic puffin. View on euronews ...

I used to think of ocean plastic as a slow, vague threat—something that chokes turtles and whales only after years of ...

Scientists estimated that a green sea turtle could contain up to 26.4 grams of plastic, equivalent to approximately 10 ping-pong balls. The Conversation reported on the prevalence of plastic ingestion ...

The ocean, blanketing over 70% of the Earth’s surface, is estimated to be home to more than half of all life on our planet.

Over the past several years, the temperature of the Earth’s oceans have been spiking high enough to trigger numerous die-offs of marine species, killing millions of corals, fish, mammals, birds and ...

A rare Indian octopus squid, Taningia silasii, has been discovered in the Arabian Sea, marking a significant find for ...

Oceans all over the world are experiencing warmer-than-normal temperatures, but waters off the southern U.S. could be on the brink of an ocean heat wave emergency as temperatures rise to unprecedented ...