Boyan Slat made waves when he was just a teenager with an audacious dream to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste. Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The Ocean ...

Plastic waste is no longer just an eyesore floating on the surface of rivers and seas. A growing body of research now shows ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines.

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

NASA scientists are beginning to examine ocean trash from a new perspective, not from ships or beaches, but from orbit. The ...

New research has shown that blue sharks’ intestines act like temporary holding tanks, trapping fibers long enough to build up significant amounts. Their epic migrations mean they can spread these ...

Oil spills rarely travel more than 300 km from their source before natural processes break them down. Ixtoc I, a 1979 spill ...

Mercury (Hg) is an environmental concern in the Arctic, where high concentrations are found in top predators such as polar bears and toothed whales. Despite declining atmospheric Hg emissions since ...

Over one quarter of Europe's 20 most highly-fished marine species will be under extreme pressure by 2100 if nothing is done to simultaneously halt climate change, overfishing, and mercury pollution, ...

Plastic waste in the ocean can break down into microplastics, which researchers measured near U.S. coastlines to study possible links to higher rates of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.