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,” and ...

Far from shore and hidden beneath the waves, scientists are tracking swirling columns of water that behave like slow-motion ...

Living in a US 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 ...

Plastics are piling up all around us, and now, scientists say, they're also piling up on the ocean floor. New research estimates that up to 11 million metric tons (more than 12 tons) of plastic ...

Every year, millions of tourists flock to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico expecting pristine beaches. Increasingly, they’re ...

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 ...

The world's oceans and waterways are littered with millions of tons of plastic pollution – but scientists in a study released Thursday say we should think twice before cleaning them up. In fact, the ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded closely split Wednesday on San Francisco’s dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency over how to stop polluted water from flowing into the ...

At issue was a regulatory dispute over the permitting standards used by the Environmental Protection Agency. Justice Amy Coney Barrett dissented, noting that the law authorizes the EPA to enforce ‘any ...

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