Scotland has designated 37% of its waters as Marine Protected Areas, but destructive fishing methods like bottom trawling continue in most of these zones ...

The legislation aims to speed up a decades old federal program for oil companies to leave their pipelines and platforms on ...

The discovery was made in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Shark Bay, Western Australia Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work ...

Cutting down swathes of boreal forest and sinking the trees into the depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. Coniferous trees ...

From the zoo to the surrounding terrain, San Diego is known for its gorgeous array of diverse opportunities to see wildlife. The extreme biomes present, from the ocean to the chaparral, creates the ...

Marine bacteria are key to determining whether carbon is recycled near the ocean surface or transported to deeper waters, but many operate in constant threat of being infected by viruses called phages ...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ebb, a climate and water technology company, has signed a prepurchase agreement with Google to remove 3,500 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. The agreement ...

KEY WEST, Fla. — A 170-pound loggerhead turtle nicknamed “Molly” was back home in the warm waters of the Florida Keys on Tuesday after a successful surgery to remove a life-threatening tumor inches ...

Molly, a 170-pound loggerhead turtle, was released back into the ocean after a surgery to remove a life-threatening tumor that was just inches away from her head. NBC News' George Solis reports on the ...

Marine litter is a major environmental problem. Abandoned containers and fishing gear can trap or strangle animals, and plastic waste can break down into microplastics, which can release chemicals ...

OCEAN CITY, Md. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began another round of dredging at the Ocean City Inlet this week, aiming to remove sand that has built up near the West Ocean City Harbor entrance ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to begin dredging operations in Ocean City, Maryland on or about Nov. 20, 2025. Here's more on where the dredging will take place, plus on past dredging ...