All over the world, researchers like Magadini are staring through microscopes at tiny pieces of plastic—fibers, fragments, or microbeads—that have made their way into marine and freshwater ...

The Ubiquity of Plastic in Our Lives Plastic has become an inevitable part of modern life. If you look around, almost ...

plastic pollution could exceed marine life by 2050. Additionally, microplastics are entering the food chain through ...

Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue Planet 2 that “we dump eight million tonnes of plastic into the sea every year”. It’s killing and harming marine life. Turtles ...

Professor Mehmet Gökoğlu from Akdeniz University has warned that microplastics accumulating on the seabed pose a serious ...

Britta Baechler said because of their size, microplastics are prevelent in the entire marine ... life. “Scientists are also looking at how microplastics affect animals in the ocean. Bigger ...

Every year, around 8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean, where it can prove fatal to marine life. These tiny, lentil sized plastic pieces are by-products of various ...