Nanoplastics entered the Atlantic via rivers, sunlight-driven plastic breakdown, and even through the air with rain or dust.

Millions of tons of plastic in the ocean aren't floating in plain sight—they're invisible. Scientists have now confirmed that ...

Community-led research from UC Santa Barbara’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents ,and eight ...

The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet off the southernmost tip of South America, and many factors contribute to how fast they ...

They analyzed color variation data from 2002 to 2022 and then used climate change models to simulate what would happen to the oceans both with additional planet-heating pollution and without. The ...

University of Washington. (2023, January 10). Plastic pollution in the oceans is an equity issue. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 01 ...

Ocean justice communities—that is to say, communities of color and/or low-income communities along our coastlines—have been systematically excluded from power, under-resourced, underserved ...

Doctor Phil Landrigan, a physician who directs Boston College's Global Observatory on Pollution and Health, joined WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about the links between ocean pollution and human ...

The ocean is changing colors, researchers say. Here's what it means. Ocean waters toward the poles and the equator are now different hues. By Julia Jacobo. June 19, 2025, 2:00 PM. 2:04.

The True Scale of Ocean Pollution ☣️. Posted: December 23, 2024 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. Today we're investigating the many different ways the ocean has been polluted, using a book I've ...

The ocean absorbs a lot of sunlight and sunlight is composed of many different wavelengths that represent many colors. The longer wavelengths – red, yellow and green – are absorbed by water ...

The color of the ocean has changed significantly over the last 20 years and human-caused climate change is likely responsible, according to a new study. CNN values your feedback 1.