Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found. Scientists ...

Researchers determined that few microplastics remain at the ocean's surface. Instead, they sit in the deep water columns: ...

The aquariums said its aerial survey team spotted three True’s beaked whales, a species “rarely seen at the surface,” while above the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the ...

Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...

Floating ocean plastics can take more than 100 years to disappear, breaking into tiny fragments that slowly sink to the seafloor.

Contrary to common belief, most large ocean plastics degrade very slowly at the surface, with about 10 percent still afloat ...

SINKER is an innovative new instrument equipped with advanced microscopes and cameras to collect detailed data about carbon ...

The monster hurricane pummelling Jamaica is powered by abnormal sea surface temperatures in the Caribbean, which were made at ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...