“Our results indicate that microplastics may tip the balance of conditions in favor of algal blooms,” the authors conclude in their study. “These results collectively illustrate that microplastics, ...

Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

A wave channel experiment used a zoom lens camera and a custom Python script to process imagery of four different zones: wave generation, shoaling and breaking, air detained by a plunging jet of water ...

Rising ocean temperatures have been implicated in mass coral bleaching events affecting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). These ...

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

High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows. Scientists tested the effects of new PVC pellets (pre-production “nurdles” used to make many ...

This story was originally published by Yale 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. They call it “The Blob.” A vast expanse of ocean stretching from Alaska to California ...