eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine animal, researchers say: In one large population, 90 percent of the fledglings had already ingested some. A plastic shard ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University found that marine creatures like ascidians can change the composition of microplastics, ...

Effective solutions to the vast amounts of plastic waste we produce are still being sought, and four innocuous insects that ...

and the animals that eat them, depend on just how many larval fish make it, and in what condition. The blue glove hasn’t been in the water long enough to suffer the fate of most ocean plastic ...

Plastic pollution in the marine environment has many unexpected dimension and at times neither we nor the environment can even recognise it as plastic. The microplastic pollution infiltrates ...

It’s killing and harming marine life. Turtles eat plastic bags mistaking them for jellyfish Seabirds are found with their stomachs full of plastic items Plastic debris can get lodged in coral and ...

The findings indicate that the particles are excreted in the feces of marine animals, causing them to be unidentifiable as plastic to the marine environment, but potentially as other organic ...