Sandwiched between the frigid swells of the Pacific and the warm pulses of Latin American cities lie stretches of turquoise ...

A team from Plastic Odyssey and Unesco have carried out a mission to map plastic waste, test removal methods and establish ...

For many years, researchers assumed that coastal-living marine animals wouldn’t last long in the open ocean, removed from their normal biome and food chain. One of the few ways that such species might ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so packed with long-lasting plastic that dozens of coastal species are living, breeding and spreading on it — forming a new 'neopelagic' ecosystem that could ...

Plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now supporting thriving marine ecosystems.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now holds tens of thousands of tons of plastic pieces, along with dozens of species that call it "home." ...

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were constructed and the society that made them.

The Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant continue to keep Guam moving forward in the protection of our natural ...

Every year, on a late summer night, Eva Pagaling joins a group of fellow Chumash paddlers who climb into a tomol, a handcrafted wood-plank canoe, for an eight-to-ten-hour voyage from the California ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

As the strategic rivalry between China and the United States intensifies across the Indo-Pacific, the Taiwan Strait is often seen as the key flash point. Yet whether the regional balance holds or tips ...

The latest boat strikes happened Tuesday and Wednesday in waters off the Pacific Ocean, a departure The death toll is at least 37 from the attacks on alleged drug-carrying vessels that began last ...