Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled ...

The first global atlas of ocean ... Light pollution near Jeddah, on the western coast of Saudi Arabia, also extends deep into the waters of the Red Sea (at left). These effects combine to send ...

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in ...

Other kinds of oceanic noise pollution, such as that caused by seismic surveys — which create the loudest noises detectable in the ocean — also have a significant effect on whales. In 2002, two dead ...