If you were to hear that by 2050 there will be more plastic in our oceans (by weight) than there will be fish, would you be alarmed? I definitely was alarmed when I read white paper about the plastic ...

A die-off last year at St. Paul Island, the first compelling case of fatal saxitoxin poisoning in marine mammals, comes as ...

Rising toxins found in bowhead whales harvested for subsistence use by Alaska Natives on the North Slope show that ocean ...

Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living ...

Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal that ocean ...

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

Researchers have measured toxins in scat samples from 205 bowhead whales from the Beaufort Sea, collected over 19 years, and ...

Microcystin Toxins at Potentially Hazardous Levels in Algal Dietary Supplements Revealed by a Combination of Bioassay, Immunoassay, and Mass Spectrometric Methods Todd R. Miller* ...

Federal officials are warning boaters and swimmers to avoid scummy water in Antelope Canyon after cyanotoxins were detected.

A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in prison.

The superintendent and deputy superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, stepped down Tuesday, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

A Japanese court found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa in a case that has triggered anger and safety concerns on Okinawa, which has a heavy American troop presence.