Plastic pollution could linger at ocean surfaces for over a century, new research finds

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...
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Nonprofit pulls 1,000 tons of harmful material out of ocean: 'One of the biggest challenges facing our time'

The Ocean Legacy Foundation aims to tackle this common plastic pollution by taking discarded fishing nets, ropes, and more ...
Yahoo

Nanoplastics Make Up Most of the Ocean’s Plastic Pollution

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

‘We cannot save the ocean alone’: Inaugural event in Seattle tackles complexity of maritime sustainability

Hundreds of global leaders gathered for the inaugural One Ocean Week Seattle, a maritime conference that wraps up Sunday.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography

The Ocean Pavilion Returns to International Climate Conference

More than a dozen of the world’s leading ocean science, philanthropic, and stakeholder organizations—led by the Woods Hole ...

Tiny ocean organisms missing from climate models may hold the key to Earth's carbon future

The ocean's smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth's thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon.
SeafoodSource

Ocean Wise's latest campaign aims to fill funding, action gaps in order to protect global seas

Global conservation organization Ocean Wise recently launched its new campaign, “Invest in the Ocean,” as a call for action ...
WUSA

Medical waste washes up along Maryland beaches, prompting Ocean City to close

OCEAN CITY, Md. — Officials along the Eastern Shore are closing down the beaches, but not for the season. According to the Maryland State Parks X account, formerly known as Twitter, a lot of medical ...