If you ask someone where plastic ends up, they will usually say the ocean. It's not a surprising answer because we have known since the 1970s that plastic is accumulating in the subtropical oceans, ...

Researchers have developed NIXVEGS, an open-source machine learning tool that predicts microplastic concentrations across an ...

New research led by Southern Cross University has found a cocktail of nasty pesticides in oysters and water from one of the NSW North Coast's dominant rivers. "This study is the most comprehensive ...

In the popular imagination, estuaries don’t have the prestige or the romanticism of their two constituent parts: the rivers that feed them with freshwater from one side, the ocean that injects salty ...

Bea Van Dam performs field survey measurements near the mouth of the Jordan River estuary in Trenton, with Cadillac Mountain on Mount Desert Island in the background. (Courtesy of Sean Smith) ORONO — ...

Sea otters returned to California’s Elkhorn Slough in 1984 when pollution had severely affected its ecosystem. Their recovery triggered changes across the food web, helping eelgrass beds expand by 600 ...

Join us for an interactive walk and panel at the Tijuana River Estuary, Southern California’s largest wetlands, where we will delve into the unique ecosystem and discuss the transboundary water crisis ...

Like a human body's circulatory system that moves blood and carries nutrients, Earth’s river networks are similar conduits. One of a river's important functions is removing pollution that ends up in ...