Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. For the first time, researchers examined data to find out how much it takes. The answer: ...

I used to think of ocean plastic as a slow, vague threat—something that chokes turtles and whales only after years of ...

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics—but how much is too much?

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ...

A new study shows that very small amounts of plastic can kill marine animals and that fragments now appear in common foods ...

Plastic found inside a dead black-footed albatross. Image by Dan Clark /USFWS. New research has found that even small amounts ...

In a research first, scientists say they studied more than 10,000 marine animal necropsies to calculate how much, or how ...

Plastic pollution, from the Great Pacific garbage patch to plastic showing up in the food chain, is known to be a major problem. Researchers have now found that even in pristine environments like the ...

To date, every family of marine mammal and seabird and all seven species of sea turtles have been documented to ingest ...

Most people would agree that plastic pollution is a problem that we can no longer afford to ignore; especially in that of our oceans. The rate at which unsuspecting wildlife ingests plastic after ...