Researchers from Tel Aviv University found that marine creatures like ascidians can change the composition of microplastics, potentially increasing their impact on marine ecosystems. These creatures ...
Deep in the ocean there are over 250,000 different species of animal! However, many of these creatures are in trouble because of the pollution and waste that humans have produced. Don’t worry ...
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 ...
Air pollution causes some 8.8 million ... of plastic enters the ocean every year. Plastic in the ocean threatens marine life — animals sometimes confuse the items for food and consume them.
If we don't stop, the ocean could be drastically changed within our lifetimes. Rivers of pollution flow into the ocean every day, with little sign of slowing down. Marine animals and birds now ...
On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril ... than any other marine animal, researchers say ...