Photo of OWS filter on deck before being unrolled. Photo is from United States v. V.Ships Norway, A.S., number 25-CR-00039 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. (Photo: DOJ) ...

The ocean is under increasing pressure. Everyday human activities, from shipping to oil and gas exploration to urban ...

Judge Albert Hoffmann from South Africa, President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), opens a session of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, issues a legal ...

A University of Hawai'i at Mānoa graduate's new research reveals that plastic pollution poses a significant, unseen threat to endangered coral reefs. The study found that chemicals leaching from ...

Safe Harbor Pollution Insurance broadens panel of security, increases marine pollution capacity Vessel pollution liability insurance company Safe Harbor Pollution Insurance announced it has expanded ...

The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With 171 trillion pieces of plastic amounting to 1 million to 1.7 million tons currently floating in it, ...

A global maritime court found on Tuesday that greenhouse gases constitute marine pollution, a major breakthrough for small island states threatened by the rise in sea levels caused by global warming.

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, during the 2025 World Maritime Day celebration held in Lagos on Thursday, bemoaned the mounting threat confronting the world’s oceans ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — A U.N. tribunal on ...