A recently deceased sperm whale found was found with a tightly wound ball of marine debris in its stomach, including an alarming assortment of plastics.
Disbelief and disappointment are some of the more PG-rated reactions coming from the ocean conservation community in response to a decision not to protect mako sharks.
The northern hemisphere's quietest tropical cyclone basin is currently going off. Cyclone Kyarr formed on Thursday and quickly spun up in the Indian Ocean into the most powerful storm on the planet.
Anyone who's participated in beach cleanup is familiar with the classic cup of cigarette butts. But habits are changing, and so too is the waste that goes with them.
When climate change comes for our coffee and our wine, we'll moan about it on Twitter, read about it on our favorite websites, and watch diverting videos on YouTube to fill the icy hole in our hearts. We'll do all this until the websites go dark and the networks go down because eventually, climate change will come for our internet, too.
It's not just the eastern part of the US roasting this week. Much of the planet is on a heat bender, including the northernmost inhabited place on Earth.
A powerful heat dome coupled with disgustingly moist air will envelop the country from the Rockies to the Eastern Seaboard starting on Wednesday and peaking on Friday and Saturday.
Not even the oceans' top predators can escape the ruinous embrace of humanity's plastic waste, suggests new research. The study indicates that over recent decades, many hundreds of sharks have been reported falling victim to entanglement in fishing gear and other marine plastic debris.
The production of ammonia for fertilizer may result in up to 100 times more emissions than has been previously estimated for this sector. And that alone is more than what the Environmental Protection Agency estimates all industries emit across the US.
This is a fight over image, and when it comes to diamonds, image is everything.
The notion that we're headed towards some kind of populational apocalypse has been used to stoke fear and sell books for more than a century. How true is it?
They just can't trust their soil anymore.
Internal memos unearthed in InsideClimate's Pulitzer-winning 2015 investigation into the company revealed all sorts of solid science being done even as the oil giant sowed doubt in public.