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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...