There are now five garbage-filled gyres in the world's oceans the largest and most notorious being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with its estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, spread across an ...

The cells had been buried for 101.5 million years, sealed inside sediment beneath one of the emptiest stretches of ocean on ...

A huge island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean has become so large that a wide variety of animal life have made it their home. Between California and Hawaii, there is a huge rotating current system ...

When climate scientists first tried to estimate how airborne microplastic affects warming, they modeled it as clean and ...

What do you do with a spacecraft when it’s no longer operational? Plunge it into a specific stretch of the Pacific.

Boyan Slat has a plan to rid the ocean of plastic pollution, this coming El Niño could be a monster and more big stories ...

The Ocean Cleanup employs advanced technologies to tackle plastic pollution, targeting the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and ...

The Loop Current often bulges out in the northern Gulf of Mexico, where it sometimes sheds a clockwise-rotating ring of warm ...

New warming culprit: Researchers found coloured airborne microplastics absorb sunlight, adding to global heat retention and intensifying climate change effects. Hotspot concerns: In regions like the ...

For generations, the mild and temperate climate of north-western Europe has been credited to one legendary force: the Gulf Stream. This idea is so deeply entrenched in our cultural identity that in ...

Scientists at the University of Miami have found that sargassum may have a different origin than previously anticipated.

Early-hurricane season stirrings are routine, and experts warn El Niño won’t stop every storm from finding a window to grow.