eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine animal, researchers say: In one large population, 90 percent of the fledglings had already ingested some. A plastic shard ...

Deep-diving toothed whales wash up dead with stomachs full of plastic and prey alike. Their built-in sonar likely can’t tell ...

Endangered wildlife like Hawaiian monk seals and Pacific loggerhead sea turtles are among nearly 700 species that eat and get caught in plastic litter. It's time to get at the root of this ocean ...

Endangered wildlife like Hawaiian monk seals and Pacific loggerhead sea turtles are among nearly 700 species that eat and get caught in plastic litter. It's time to get at the root of this ocean ...

So, while it is technically eating away at the garbage patch that has infiltrated the Pacific Ocean, it can't do it fast ...

A model of a whale shark made of plastic bottles in Rizhao Ocean Park in China Hosepipes ... They say the length of an animal can be used to estimate how big a piece of plastic it might ...

Plastics ingested by marine animals inevitably make their way into our food supply. Frequent seafood consumers are estimated to ingest thousands of microplastic particles annually. Although ...

Seabirds in the Pacific Ocean are eating plastic and feeding it to ... For example, it is not as simple to say that the more plastic an animal eats, the lower its survival rate.

If we don't stop, the ocean could be drastically changed within our lifetimes. Rivers of pollution flow into the ocean every day, with little sign of slowing down. Marine animals and birds now ...

CHILD: We think they might be dangerous for the animals. NAOMI ... are also working on making a bacteria that could eat plastic. Our oceans are vast and beautiful and home to lots of different ...