On 25 May 2025, the Liberian cargo vessel MSC Elsa 3 sank off the coast of Kochi. It was carrying 644 containers. By 28 May, three hundred kilometres to the south, flotsam started washing up on the ...

According to a situation report issued by the DGS, the oil containment measures have temporarily stabilised the situation, but full risk mitigation will happen only on successful commencement of ...

The first study of microplastics in Texas coastal sediment was funded through a local environmental activist’s landmark legal victory over plastic pollution, one of many such research projects.

Two shipwrecks near the Kerala coast, taking place within a span of 15 days, have raised serious concerns among fisherfolk, ...

Though no official directive has been issued against the consumption of fish till now, experts fear that the presence of plastic nurdles and other hazardous materials in the water may have dangerous c ...

Stakeholders of tourism industry and fishermen communities have expressed deep concern over tonnes of plastic pellets accumulating on the beaches of Kerala after Liberian cargo vessel MSC ELSA-3 sank ...

KOCHI: More than two weeks after the Liberian-flagged cargo vessel MSC Elsa-3 sank off the coast of Kochi, police on Wednesday registered a case in connection w ...

This comes nearly three weeks after the Liberia-flagged MSC ELSA 3, a 28-year-old vessel, capsized around 25 km southwest of ...

The Southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Tamil Nadu government to file a comprehensive report ...

RAMANATHAPURAM: A day after plastic nurdles from the Kochi ship wreck washed ashore in Dhanushkodi, around 500kg of nurdles ...

T'puram: As part of World Ocean Day, activists displayed an art installation in Valiyathura on June 8, symbolising the vast ...

Ramanathapuram: The plastic nurdle spill from the sunken container ship MSC ELSA 3 has now reached the newly declared ...