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.

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 ...

Working to stop harmful marine pollution at the source. © Troy Mayne / WWF The health, resilience and productivity of marine and coastal ecosystems is increasingly ...

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

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 ...

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, at least 14 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year. That plastic makes up 80 per cent of all marine debris, which ...