Solution Sought to Pacific Ocean Water Pollution Untreated wastewater flows from Tijuana, Mexico, into the Pacific Ocean near the California border. Sasha Khokha of NPR station KQED says the U.S ...

According to San Diego Coastkeeper, 80 percent of marine debris in the Pacific Ocean comes from inland sources through storm drains.

Water covers about 71% of Earth, and most of the pollution in it comes from the remaining 29% of land we live on. NOAA states that “80% of pollution to the marine environment comes from the land ...

There are many types of marine pollution. Ocean water covers more than 70 percent of the Earth, ... The garbage patch floating in the Pacific Ocean, almost 620,000 square miles ...

The Pacific Ocean, explained. The largest ocean on Earth is filled with mysteries, but also subject to great pressures like climate change, plastic pollution, and overfishing.

It's time to get at the root of this ocean crisis.The Center has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating plastics as a pollutant and is working to stop plastic pollution at ...

French marathon swimmer Benoit 'Ben' Lecomte, takes the start of his attempt of swimming across the Pacific Ocean in Choshi, Chiba prefecture on June 5, 2018.

Before French marathon swimmer Benoit Lecomte began his six-month-long attempt Tuesday to become the first to swim across the Pacific Ocean, he prepared for a number of possible challenges such ...

Air pollution can even turn into ocean pollution when it settles into bodies of water. The Pacific Garbage Patch Winds help form large systems of circular ocean currents called gyres.

Untreated wastewater flows from Tijuana, Mexico, into the Pacific Ocean near the California border. Sasha Khokha of NPR station KQED says the U.S. government is expected to endorse a much-debated ...

Untreated wastewater flows from Tijuana, Mexico, into the Pacific Ocean near the California border. Sasha Khokha of NPR station KQED says the U.S. government is expected to endorse a much-debated ...