The way oil drops break up at the water's surface means some oil may not get cleaned up after a spill. Oil drops from underwater oil spills can break into tinier droplets at the surface that remain ...

A new study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin shows that oil is still seeping from the wreck of the USS Arizona, more ...

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s southern state of Kerala, local residents were first bemused, then baffled.

Water drop impacts cause macroscopic effects that are quite common in the natural world, from seed transportation to soil ...

The vastness of the ocean allows polluters to evade detection in all but the most egregious violations. SkyTruth aims to change that with Cerulean, an orbital monitoring platform for coastal waters ...

Kate Sullivan de Estrada receives funding from Research England’s Policy Support Fund allocation to the University of Oxford via the Public Policy Challenge Fund. Her project under the Fund is titled ...

SANTA FE, N.M.— New Mexico Public Lands Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard announced an executive order today that bans new oil and gas leasing on state lands within one mile of schools and other ...