With a history of human occupation that goes back 5,000 years and chosen by UNESCO for protection, the Swedish island of ...

Finland became the first country to ban cargo ships from dumping sewage and scrubber sludge in its waters. The Baltic may ...

Finland becomes the first country to ban cargo ship discharges of toilet wastewater and scrubber sludge in coastal waters. The new law aims to reduce marine pollution and eutrophication.

A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The giant swirls are collectively one of the best examples of this ...

Over the past two decades, more than one-fifth of the world's oceans, an area exceeding 75 million square kilometers, have ...

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

Marine mammal researchers are investigating how sea lions were affected by the longest toxic algal bloom on record off the ...

Marine mammal researchers are investigating how sea lions were affected by the longest toxic algal bloom on record off the coast of Southern California. Some sea lions are being released back into the ...

Water quality scientists predict the harmful algae bloom on western Lake Erie this year will be relatively mild and less severe than last year.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its research partners forecast a mild to moderate harmful algal bloom season this summer.

Ten fur seals and hundreds of fish washed up dead on a Pribilof beach last year. New research links the die-off to warming oceans.

Brevard County officials warn Melbourne Beach campers about an algal bloom and its odor near Long Point Park campgrounds.