The world's oceans are racing towards their tipping point with every region now under threat from the triple planetary crisis ...

The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

Scientists warn that plastic pollution has reached every corner of Earth — from ocean trenches to human bloodstreams — signaling a slow-moving crisis that rivals climate change in scale.

It was believed that the source of garbage flows is the rivers: Yangtze, Indus, Huang He, Amur, Mekong, Ganges, Zhujiang, Haihe, Niger, and the Nile supposedly bring 90% of anthropogenic pollution to ...

A new report on the state of the world’s oceans paints a grim picture. The ninth annual Copernicus Ocean State Report finds ...

Living near heavily microplastic-polluted waters along the United States coastline may significantly raise the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, stroke and coronary artery disease, a condition in ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

Living in a U.S. coastal county bordered by ocean waters with very high concentrations of microplastics may increase the risk of heart and metabolic diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes, coronary artery ...

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have unveiled a tool that forecasts sewage-contamination levels at beaches in south San Diego County.

A study of microplastics in U.S. coastal waters found that residents of counties adjacent to the most heavily microplastic-polluted waters had significantly higher rates of Type 2 diabetes, coronary ...

The opening of Breathtaking coincided with both the Venice International Film Festival and the 2025 Architecture Biennale, ...