A pollution incident occurred at Manasquan Beach in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Following heavy rainfall, waves washed a large amount of household trash onto the beach, including at least 60 medical syringes and related waste, with plastic debris scattered across the tidal flats. During the summer rainy season on the U.S. East Coast, sewage overflows…

A Panamanian-flagged bulk carrier veered off course and ran aground in waters north of Awaji Island in Osaka Bay, Japan. The ship’s right-side heavy fuel oil tank was damaged, causing a large amount of marine fuel oil to leak into the sea. A brown oil slick stretching several kilometers formed on the water’s surface and…

A harmful red tide has broken out in the waters off Sanuki in the eastern Seto Inland Sea, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. Due to the combined effects of persistently high sea temperatures and nutrients from coastal domestic wastewater and uneaten feed from aquaculture, this red tide has spread faster than in previous years, covering approximately 120…

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has completed the discharge of all radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant as part of the 22nd round. Including the volume discharged in this round, the total amount of radioactive water released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima has reached 173,000 metric tons. Neighboring countries, including China…

Due to the combined effects of rainfall from the southwest monsoon and tidal backflow, rivers throughout the Manila Metropolitan Area in the Philippines are overwhelmed with trash. Large quantities of plastic bottles and bags, discarded furniture, and construction debris are being swept from Manila Bay into the city’s waterways with the rising tide, accumulating in…

Affected by the southwest monsoon and the outer bands of a typhoon, Metro Manila has been hit by persistent heavy rains. The flood barriers at the mouth of a river in Paranaque City were breached by the floodwaters, causing accumulated household garbage, plastic waste, and construction debris to spread across the river’s surface. The floating…

A large-scale bloom of toxic cyanobacteria has occurred in the waters off the Baltic Sea. These algae produce hepatotoxins and neurotoxins through their metabolic processes, and contact with the contaminated seawater can easily cause physical discomfort. This summer’s high sea temperatures and prolonged sunlight, combined with large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients carried in…

In the town of Los Osos in central California, a rupture in a sewage pipeline’s air vent caused an overflow of approximately 15,000 gallons of untreated sewage. Some of the sewage seeped into the surrounding soil before flowing into the nearshore mudflats and shallow waters of the Pacific Ocean. Concentrations of fecal coliform bacteria in…

The Tijuana River on the Mexican side continues to carry large amounts of untreated domestic sewage, industrial chemical runoff, and solid waste into the Pacific Ocean, with the maximum daily flow of sewage reaching 30 million gallons. The pollutants have formed a large-scale contaminated current that is spreading northward, continuing to affect coastal waters in…

The World Meteorological Organization has updated its global marine heatwave and red tide warnings. Sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic, and off the coast of Australia have repeatedly broken records for this time of year. High temperatures can increase the toxicity of land-based wastewater, and the risk of red tides in North…