Researchers found hundreds of organisms hitchhiking on a plastic bottle cap and warn that this type of pollution could cause ...

New research has found that even small amounts of plastic can be deadly to seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals. While previous research has established that plastic can lead to mortality in many ...

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A new Tel Aviv University study has uncovered alarming findings about the spread of microplastic particles in the marine food web. In recent years, numerous studies have examined the dangers of marine ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

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Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, where the numbers are no longer abstract and time is running out to make an ...

A study by the University of Portsmouth has revealed for the first time the extent of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on livestock, humans and the wider environment on the Kenyan island of ...

A new study says an amount of plastic “smaller than you might think” in the guts of seabirds and aquatic animals can be fatal, the first time that researchers say they’ve quantified how much can be ...

A new study looking at the impacts of plastic ingestion by seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals found that relatively small amounts of consumed plastic can be deadly. The research analyzed the ...