A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine analyzed artery-clogging plaques from over 250 patients and found ...

Its findings are based on almost 30 samples taken across the Atlantic Ocean, enabling scientists to examine variations in micro-plastic concentration and types within the upper ocean, both on the ...

Such an amount of plastic, 21 million tons, would be enough to fully load almost 1,000 container ships. Findings are published in the journal Nature Communications There are 12-21 million tons of ...

The smallest ones, called nano-plastics, sink deep into the ocean and can end up in plankton. Larger pieces, known as micro-plastics, float in a soup, suspended in water, and are eaten by fish.

About nine million tons of visible plastic trash enter oceans each year—then there’s the waste we can’t see. This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

It’s one of nature’s healthiest wild foods, the backbone of a major industry in the Pacific Northwest and deeply embedded...

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 ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end up causing all sorts of problems for sea life and marine mammals. But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean?