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 ...

Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...

Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to bigger fish and marine mammals. Microplastics are also consumed by people through food and in the air. It’s estimated ...

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 ...

The findings indicate that the particles are excreted in the feces of marine animals, causing them to be unidentifiable as plastic to the ... in the Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Prof.

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 ...