Researchers examined more than 10,000 animal autopsies to figure out how much plastic is too much for ocean wildlife ...

The study found seabirds face extreme risk after swallowing just 23 pieces of plastic, giving them a 90% chance of dying.

Plastic found inside a dead black-footed albatross. Image by Dan Clark /USFWS. New research has found that even small amounts ...

I used to think of ocean plastic as a slow, vague threat—something that chokes turtles and whales only after years of ...

A new study shows that very small amounts of plastic can kill marine animals and that fragments now appear in common foods ...

In a research first, scientists say they studied more than 10,000 marine animal necropsies to calculate how much, or how ...

Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. For the first time, researchers examined data to find out how much it takes. The answer: ...

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics—but how much is too much?

Fragments of rubber balloons, plastic bags and fishing line can cause fatal blockages and injuries in sea turtles, seabirds ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

To date, every family of marine mammal and seabird and all seven species of sea turtles have been documented to ingest ...

There’s so much plastic pollution in the environment that animals have long been turning up dead from ingesting the waste. A particularly disturbing case happened in Thailand’s Khun Sathan National ...