ocean

A new study led by scientists from the University of Exeter found sea urchins raised in plastic-contaminated seawater samples suffered from a range of abnormalities, including deformed skeletons and nervous systems

Tristan da Cunha, home to the world’s most remote human settlement, has declared 687,000 square kilometres in the Atlantic Ocean will be protected

Researchers from the University of Exeter and the University of Queensland studied five different kinds of seafood and found traces of plastic in every sample

Scientists say newly announced devices to skim rubbish from the top of the world’s seas won’t have any significant impact in cleaning up pollution

The World Economic Forum and Aker Group have announced the establishment of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Norway (C4IR Norway)

Fires have been raging across the world’s largest tropical rainforest, one of the most important carbon sinks

Blue energy, which refers to the energy released when freshwater mixes with the ocean, could harness as much as 2TW of clean electricity

Fionn Ferreira from Cork has won the $50,000 top prize at the 2019 Google Science Fair in California

A new report suggests plastic pollution could be responsible for the benefit humans can gain from oceans falling by 5%

A new report suggests protein found in the sea creatures could significantly reduce the harmful effects of microplastics