Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

President Donald Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have promised sweeping changes to the U.S. military.

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

A generic 40-kilowatt-hour electric vehicle battery, about the size in a Nissan Leaf, requires over 8 pounds of lithium, over ...

Scientists have learned that particles from car tires are a leading culprit in salmon declines in the Pacific Northwest—and ...

Pacific nations, including Fiji, must ratify the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement This will increase ...

Unlike the packed sands of more touristy destinations, Bandon’s beaches offer space to breathe, to think, to exist without ...

Little cottages and beach houses nestle among shore pines that grow at crazy angles from years of ocean winds. Some of the ...

The number of affected drinking water systems grows with each update as the EPA adds more test results. See if your water ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...