British marine biologist and photographer Richard Smith focuses his work on the ocean’s tiniest and weirdest creatures.

Scientists are just beginning to understand the impact these particles are having on fish, the food chain ... documented the ubiquity of plastics in ocean water samples. Writer Laura Parker ...

If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily surface slicks in which many ocean fish come of age are ...

"The ocean is our life," he says, "we have nowhere else to go if our resources dry up. Our Vezo culture could disappear." Known as Madagascar's "sea nomads," Vezo people have followed fish ...