Imagine being able to check the likelihood of ocean pollution the same way you check the weather. It is an idea that a team of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego put ...

Snowballing framework between the oil slick dataset and the deep learning model. The left panel (in red) represents the process of data preparation, and the right panel (in blue) represents the ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...

After trawling through some forty years’ worth of data, scientists have identified a foreboding “plastic smog” pervading our oceans that comprises more than 171 trillion plastic particles, according ...

When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery ...

A new report has been released by Germany-based ocean plastic recovery startup CleanHub that highlights ocean plastic pollution this year, as well as a look into its complex origins and what the ...

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

Operators have pumped water to cool the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) since the accident in 2011 and treated this cooling water with the Advanced Liquid ...