Open with CtrlK — press Esc to close
Tag
Everything we've published on Water Pollution: articles, news, opinion and video.
A robot submersible recorded 29 pieces of litter on the floor of the Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon off Argentina, between 1,120 and 3,820 meters down. The survey was published Sept. 16 in PLOS One,…
Sable shearwaters in Australia are swallowing far more plastic than they were before 2022, while the overall share of birds carrying any plastic at all has remained steady for 16 years. That is the…
Rivers carry far more microplastic into the ocean than most earlier estimates suggest, and rainfall drives sharp spikes in what they deliver, researchers at Peking University reported Sept. 10 in the…
Stopping all new plastic from entering the ocean by 2050 would still leave microplastic accumulating in it, a modeling study published Sept. 12 in the journal Communications Earth & Environment…
Switzerland puts a great deal of engineering between its households and its lakes. Wastewater runs through a treatment plant before it reaches a river, and the country knows roughly what comes out…
A coral is not a tree, but it keeps the same kind of books. The slow-growing stony corals of the northern Gulf of Mexico add a layer of limestone every year, one on top of the last, for centuries.…
Drop a bottle cap into a river and follow it. Within days it can be out at sea, and on the way the water around it turns from fresh to fully salty. It does not travel empty. To anything small enough,…
Until now, a Brazilian who wanted to know how much oil had been spilled along their own coast had to know which agency to ask, and then ask several more. The records existed. They were held in…
A plastic crate that spends a summer in the yard comes back faded and chalky. Leave it there for a few more summers and it turns brittle, then starts to crumble. Manufacturers have a standard fix for…
Two ocean eddies south of the Canary Islands held up to three times more microplastic in their upper 200 meters than the surrounding region, according to shipboard sampling published Sept. 3 in…
A team led by Zoie T. Diana of the University of Toronto has released a reference library of infrared spectra for telling paint particles apart from other microplastics, and reports it worked far…
Plastic netting buried in a New Zealand tidal flat changed how the sediment responded to a storm, according to a two-month field experiment published Aug. 28, 2026, in Scientific Reports. Ines Bartl,…