Why do ocean animals eat plastic? Whales with stomachs full of plastic have turned up around the world. Here's what we know.

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean. Researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa have recently discovered ...

Plastic pollution is filtering up into the fish that we eat Oysters, tuna and other wild-caught fish we eat often contain microplastics ...

Moreover, many animals mistake plastic for food and eat it. Large chunks of plastic have accumulated in whales’ stomachs, causing them to starve to death. Sea turtles, including critically endangered ...

How Single Use Plastics Are Hurting Our Oceans and Warming Our Planet November 1, 2023 Plastic is everywhere. It is in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe. Plastic is not ...

Plastic straws are one of the top contributors of plastic pollution in the oceans. With just 9% of straws capable of being recycled worldwide, hundreds of millions to billions make their way into ...

Thousands of animals, from small finches to blue whales, die grisly deaths from eating and getting caught in plastic. Fish in the North Pacific ingest 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic each year, which ...

Scientists have discovered a plastic-eating fungus on the Great Pacific garbage patch, but it isn't fast enough to clean up everything.

All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too Researchers worry that microplastics may be messing with an important carbon sequestration process ...

The oceans may contain much, much more plastic than previously thought A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.