Ocean plastic has hit a critical point in 2025, threatening turtles, whales, and seabirds. See which solutions still offer hope.

PFAS discovered inside many whale and dolphin species, including deep divers, proving that pollution spreads widely and ...

Each year, an estimated 24 billion pounds of plastic end up in oceans across the world. Unable to distinguish that trash from natural food sources, many marine animals end up ingesting it. While ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic it takes to be a lethal dose.

A toxic algae bloom in coastal waters has killed dozens of marine animals, including whales and dolphins, between San Diego and San Luis Obispo, and the area has been labeled an extreme danger zone by ...

Scientists from around the world are calling for urgent action to protect, restore, and sustainably manage one of the ocean's ...

Imagine it’s the early 1900s and you’re a giant blue whale basking in the warm waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, just off the coast of Southern California. What do you hear? Fellow whale songs, ...

Beachgoers will often walk right up to seals, sea lions and sea turtles with what they think are harmless intentions — especially if they want the perfect picture or believe the animal is injured and ...

Scientists continue to discover animals that seem almost too strange to be real. Even with shrinking habitats and climate pressures, new discoveries continue to emerge in rivers, forests, oceans, and ...

Something disturbing is unfolding along the South Australia coastline — and the pictures alone are crushing. Over the last few months, beaches have become graveyards, with thousands of fish, shellfish ...

Kimberley Stokes receives funding from the Bertarelli Programme in Marine Science. She is affiliated with Swansea University. Competitive swimmers know that swimming underwater causes less drag ...

Climate change could set up the Earth’s oceans for one of the worst mass extinction events in the planet’s history over the next 300 years, a new study published Thursday estimates, but the risk to ...