What started as a routine dive took a chilling turn when I discovered a sealed plastic bag underwater—possibly containing ...

Over a decade ago, the U.S. Coast Guard rescued three men in the Gulf of Mexico who had been fishing for grouper when their ...

A landmark report for the global agreement on wetlands paints a dire picture of the state of the world’s water bodies that ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.