Scientists have wondered where the ocean’s microplastic pollution ends up. Corals may trap about 1 percent of particles in tropical waters each year.
For the first time, scientists observed that orcas can kill blue whales by using the same hunting techniques that have worked on other large whales.
Pollution is any substance or form of energy released into the environment that is harmful to people or other living creatures.
A new model suggests that 58 percent of coral reefs and 88 percent of seagrass beds are exposed to excess nitrogen from wastewater.
El Niño and La Niña are part of a climate cycle that results in major weather changes every few years.
In a dozen years or so, the tide-enhancing effects of a wobble in the moon’s orbit should lead to dramatically higher sea levels in some coastal cities.
The world is cluttered with plastic waste. All that junk kills animals far and wide.
New fossil evidence shows 90 percent of sharks died in the mysterious event.