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 ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised ... have plastic in their stomachs (Wilcox et al, 2015) and ...

Meanwhile, ocean plastic is estimated to kill millions of marine animals every ... (See We Know Plastic Is Harming Marine Life. What About Us?) He worries more about the things that none of ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

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 ...

The equipment keeps trapping and killing marine life in a phenomenon known as ... ropes accounted for 41.8 percent of the weight of plastic waste washing up on Japan’s shores, followed ...

So-called “ghost gear”, fishing equipment which is lost in the sea, can continue killing marine life for decades or even centuries after it first enters the ocean, making it the most deadly form of ...