It’s one of the more serious emerging pollution threats to the Great Lakes, which have a long history of manmade threats and ...

Sustained pollution can damage coastal and marine ecosystems and jeopardise the livelihood of entire communities. By applying cutting-edge nuclear and isotopic techniques, the IAEA helps Member States ...

Ahead of the UNEP-hosted World Environment Day, here’s a closer look at what plastic pollution is, why it’s such a problem ...

In a vital partnership to protect Jamaica’s coastal communities, the Government of the United Kingdom and the United Nations ...

controlling coastal pollution, and expanding marine protected areas. The study is the first comprehensive examination of the impacts of ocean pollution on human health. It was published in the online ...

The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills, and thereby ...

Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year ... to regulate plastics as a pollutant under the Clean Water Act and will keep pushing for plastic pollution ...

One of its potential uses is to clean up whatever is contaminating water supplies. Analytical chemist Philiswa Nomngongo, a leading ... Marine plastic pollution is a global crisis, with 9 to 14 ...

Local officials from three coastal barangays in Toledo City have issued a unified rebuttal to claims of marine pollution and health risks linked to industrial activity in the area, calling the ...

When work resumed in earnest in 2023 tests found levels of E. coli and Enterococcus bacteria had spiked at testing locations ...

Pollution with micro- and nanoplastics can come in multiple forms, including in marine environments. It remains unclear whether marine microplastic levels contribute to cognitive decline and/or ...