By Elizabeth Claire Alberts New research has found that even small amounts of plastic can be deadly to seabirds, sea turtles ...

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ...

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

The ocean is awash with plastic— more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals ...

Scientists have revealed the fatal toll of plastic on marine life after analysing 10,000 marine animal autopsies. Researchers ...