Microplastics now found even in deepest ‘most isolated’ parts of Earth - Microplastics found in 92 per cent of all animals ...

Seabirds are one of the world's most threatened animal groups. They already contend with multiple issues, including climate change, accidental capture in fishing gear and being eaten by invasive ...

Researchers examine the specific impacts of microplastics on the geophysics of sea foam formation in the critical zone where water meets air in the top layer of the ocean. They devised two simulations ...

Sea urchin larvae raised in high levels of plastic pollution die due to developmental abnormalities, new research shows. Scientists put fertilized urchin eggs in seawater with varying levels of ...

Scientists transplanted 42 sea sponges into a polluted marina in Spain. One species achieved a 91.7% survival rate over 455 days and even began creating "mobile clones", offering fresh hope for ...

Global sea levels rose at an unprecedented rate during the 20th century. According to the National Oceanic and ...

Green sea turtles are producing more females in response to a warming climate — and human-caused pollution is helping fuel the surge, a recent analysis suggests. Writing in Frontiers in Marine Science ...

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 ...

Estrela Matilde, a conservation biologist and executive director of the NGO Fundação Príncipe, has won a Whitley Award, for her work to save sea turtles in the tiny African nation of São Tomé and ...

Seabirds are one of the world’s most threatened animal groups. They already contend with multiple issues, including climate change, accidental capture in fishing gear and being eaten by invasive ...