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

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 ...

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 ...

"This is an animal that relies entirely on the ocean for its survival ... but there is growing evidence that fish may prefer eating plastic to food. Swedish scientists recently demonstrated ...

This is not the first case linking plastics with the deepest parts of the ocean. Explorer makes alarming find while ...

If we don't stop, the ocean could be drastically changed within our lifetimes. Rivers of pollution flow into the ocean every day, with little sign of slowing down. Marine animals and birds now ...

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

seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it. Endangered wildlife like Hawaiian monk seals and Pacific loggerhead sea turtles are among nearly ...

seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it. Endangered wildlife like Hawaiian monk seals and Pacific loggerhead sea turtles are among nearly ...

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 affect the health of reefs Microplastics ...