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

New research warns that less than three sugar cubes’ worth of plastics could be fatal for seabirds like the Atlantic puffin.

A new study finds that a handful of nations are responsible for the vast majority of plastic waste entering the world’s ...

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

By adding new filters at water treatment plants, PolyGone is removing microplastics from the water system—and then recycling ...

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

At the 50% mortality threshold, the volumes are even more startling: consuming less than one sugar cube’s worth of plastics ...

For the average person, trying to avoid plastics can feel overwhelming—and maybe pointless. Our writer asked two experts how ...

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

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

The study found seabirds face extreme risk after swallowing just 23 pieces of plastic, giving them a 90% chance of dying.

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