Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

The Ocean Cleanup System 03 is focused on addressing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This video provides an in-depth exploration of the various phases of the Ocean Cleanup initiative, including ...

Plastic debris often travels thousands of kilometers across oceans, carried solely by currents, wind, tides, and time. For example, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—a massive swirling zone between ...

Microplastics are everywhere—from oceans to our bodies—posing serious health risks. Discover their impact and solutions.

A green sea turtle that was tangled in fishing line was released to sea after a three-month recovery at the Aquarium of the ...

This GOES-19 GeoColor satellite image taken Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025 at 6 p.m. EDT and provided by NOAA, shows Tropical Storm Lorena, upper right, off Mexico's western coast, and Hurricane Kiko, left, ...

On a cool morning in early summer, Zhongqi Miao stands behind a tree in the Asian small-clawed otter exhibit at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo tinkering with a small camera hidden among the leaves. The ...

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Kiko intensified into a major hurricane in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday at the same time Hurricane Lorena geared up to lash the coast of Mexico's Baja California. Kiko surged ...

El Salvador seized packages containing 1.4 tons of cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean, President Nayib Bukele said Tuesday, calling it a strike "against international drug trafficking." The ...

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has seized over 40,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean over the last month as part of boosted counter-drug operations. More than a dozen interceptions since ...

A new study projects that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—the system of currents that includes the Gulf Stream—could shut down after 2100 under high-emission scenarios. This ...