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 ...

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 ...

and the animals that eat them, depend on just how many larval fish make it, and in what condition. The blue glove hasn’t been in the water long enough to suffer the fate of most ocean plastic ...

"This is an animal that relies entirely on the ocean for its survival ... but there is growing evidence that fish may prefer eating plastic to food. Swedish scientists recently demonstrated ...

Now the same team, along with their colleagues, have found signs of dementia-like brain damage, kidney and liver dysfunction, ...

There will be more plastic than fish Rivers of pollution flow into the ocean every day, with little sign of slowing down. Marine animals and birds now regularly eat plastic, and so do humans. It is ...

Plastics are harmful to marine ecosystems—they can concentrate dangerous chemicals, such as phthalates and bisphenol A; entrap or harm animals ... the ocean had some ability to eat plastic ...

There are many ways to reduce plastic, and although it’s hard, it’s not impossible — that is plainly an excuse. We have to do ...

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 ...