The coils of black hose, drum skimmers designed to collect oil from the ocean's surface, and orangey-red containment booms ...

On May 25, 2025, the Liberian-flagged cargo ship MSC ELSA 03 sank approximately 38 nautical miles southwest of Kochi, India.

Most of the reefs in the Indian Ocean, in contrast, are much more vulnerable because they already have been weakened by additional stressors such as pollution, overfishing and other human activities.

Spatial distribution of microplastics in the tropical Indian Ocean based on laser direct infrared imaging and microwave-assisted matrix digestion. Environmental Pollution , 2022; 307: 119547 DOI ...

In a paper published late last year, Misra and colleagues pieced together the history of lead pollution in the Indian Ocean between 1989 and 2013 by measuring the chemical content of coral in ...

According to a scientific study from 2018, the Pacific Ocean’s garbage patch is the biggest, coming in at almost 618,000 square miles.. It contains tons of non-biodegradable plastics, from ...

New evidence from a UCT study accuses Cape Town officials of distorting scientific findings to conceal severe pollution in ...

A security specialist in the Western Indian Ocean sees how countries work together to counter the threat of a massive oil ...

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 ...