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 new study has revealed that high levels of plastic pollution may be killing the embryos of various ... with massive impacts for marine life, the wider environment, and people,” Jimenez-Guri ...

making them dangerous for even microscopic forms of marine life. That's why researchers at the University of Exeter are working with the public and policy makers to encourage smarter plastic usage ...

On Tuesday, fisherfolks in Bolinao, Pangasinan, discovered a short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) in ...

UPLAND, Cali. (WFLA) — A family was arrested for retail theft after ransacking a Target store in Southern California. On ...

Flesh-footed shearwaters, large, sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine ...

Plastic pollution may be even more detrimental to ocean life than we once thought. Every year, 14 million tons of plastic end up in our oceans, making up 80 percent of all marine debris ...

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 ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life ... and half of marine turtles have eaten plastic (Schuyler et al, 2014). Marine life can ...

Many of the sea creatures we love – birds, fish, turtles and whales – die because of the plastic that’s suffocating our seas. Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue ...

Scientists have discovered that a hydrothermal system created by the asteroid impact may have helped marine life flourish at the impact site by generating and circulating nutrients in the crater ...