Welcome to today’s edition of Boiling Point. I’m Ian James, a reporter on The Times climate and environment team, filling in for my colleague Sammy Roth. As the burning of fossil fuels and other human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines.

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,” and ...

The world's oceans and waterways are littered with millions of tons of plastic pollution – but scientists in a study released Thursday say we should think twice before cleaning them up. In fact, the ...

Working to stop harmful marine pollution at the source. © Troy Mayne / WWF The health, resilience and productivity of marine and coastal ecosystems is increasingly ...

In the early 1960s, the observation of a high concentration of lead in the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean off southern California sparked debate. Was it from a previously unknown geological ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is narrowing the capabilities and reducing the number of next-generation weather and climate satellites it plans to build and launch in the coming ...

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...