But typically the consumption of plastic just leads to chronic, unrelenting hunger. Some animals now live in a world of plastics—like these hyenas scavenging at a landfill in Harar, Ethiopia.

In Uganda’s Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is ...

Although a range of industrial and agricultural pollutants with effects on the environment has been identified, these defined contaminants are usually confined to some locality and are therefore ...

Plastic Pollution Is Forcing Animals to Evolve — Here’s How Posted: 7 March 2025 | Last updated: 7 March 2025 As plastic waste infiltrates every corner of the planet, scientists have ...

“We know that there are effects from plastics on animals at nearly all levels of biological organization,” Rochman says. “We know enough to act to reduce plastic pollution from entering the ...

However, a lot of previous research only focused on certain impacts of plastic, limiting a broader understanding of its impact on animals as a whole. “A lot of past work has focused on one individual ...

In addition to the pellets, crackers pollute our rivers and oceans with nasty chemicals that can be toxic to aquatic animals and accumulate in the food chain. The oil industry’s push to expand ...

Scientists, farmers and consumers all worry about how that’s affecting human health ... can be taken up by plants on land or ...

Plastic has already been found in animals at the bottom of the sea ... With all the plastic going into and affecting the ocean, saying that “there’s not that much plastic” and “it ...

The necropsy by the CMAST College of Veterinary Medicine faculty and staff and NC Aquariums staff for CMAST and Duke Marine Lab students revealed the probable cause of death: a large plastic bag ...

It’s a compounding catastrophe that has already begun affecting the creatures all the way up the food chain, including mankind. “175 plus countries agreed to negotiate a treaty to end plastic ...