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

Ocean plastic has hit a critical point in 2025, threatening turtles, whales, and seabirds. See which solutions still offer ...

Researchers examined more than 10,000 animal autopsies to figure out how much plastic is too much for ocean wildlife ...

By Elizabeth Claire Alberts New research has found that even small amounts of plastic can be deadly to seabirds, sea turtles ...

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

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

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly.

Plastic pollution, from the Great Pacific garbage patch to plastic showing up in the food chain, is known to be a major problem. Researchers have now found that even in pristine environments like the ...

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

A new study shows that very small amounts of plastic can kill marine animals and that fragments now appear in common foods ...

While we know that a huge amount of plastic waste is building up in the oceans, what we don’t know a lot about is where it ends up, and what exactly it means for marine ecosystems. After studying the ...

Most people would agree that plastic pollution is a problem that we can no longer afford to ignore; especially in that of our oceans. The rate at which unsuspecting wildlife ingests plastic after ...