With the organization’s technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.

The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s history. By comparison, the entire history of the rise and evolution of ...

As demand for more sustainable and environmentally friendly products goes mainstream, a large number of organizations and innovations are sprouting up to combat pollution. One of these nonprofit ...

Historically, there have been four oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. On Feb. 9, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced the Gulf of Mexico had officially been changed to ...

Ocean waters cover three-quarters of the globe and are vast, mostly undiscovered havens for mysterious and diverse life. But the open oceans are also a free-for-all, barely regulated or policed.

A photo of the earth and its oceans taken from space. The photo has been changed so we can see all of the earth’s surface in one picture. The Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest ocean.

The booming ocean economy sustains hundreds of millions of people, but it is being squeezed dry by overfishing, pollution, climate change and waste, UN ...

In 2022, 196 countries agreed on a plan to do just that: the Global Biodiversity Framework, which – among other targets – commits us to protect and conserve at least 30% of our ocean, land and ...

Human activities are threatening the health of the world's oceans. More than 80 percent of marine pollution comes from land-based activities. From coral bleaching to sea level rise, entire marine ...