There are fears tiny grains of plastic washed up after two ships caught fire in the North Sea could devastate wildlife on the RSPB's ...

Small pellets of plastic ... across the world in large containers but don’t tend to come to our attention unless something has gone seriously wrong. The largest recorded nurdle spill at sea ...

Manufactured objects will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to human existence, paleontologist authors ...

An operation to remove plastic pellets which have washed up on Norfolk beaches following a ship collision in the North Sea could take ... anything that you come across on the beach.

Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human civilisation and become the defining fossils of our age.

Half a million barrels of toxic waste lurking beneath the waves just miles from California’s coastline sounds like the plot ...

Thousands of plastic “nurdles” were washed into the sea on March 10 when the container ... to take care with anything that you come across on the beach. “Our clean-up team are wearing ...

An operation to remove plastic pellets which have washed up on Norfolk beaches following a ship collision in the North Sea could take weeks ... continue to take care with anything that you come across ...