A Blue Planet II segment shows researchers finding plastic bags, food packaging, and even a fatal toothpick inside albatross ...

The microplastic problem has reached our pets’ food bowl. A new study of pet and wildlife foods sold in Britain found ...

Animals living in the deepest ocean trenches have been found with plastic fragments in their gut, according to new research published Wednesday showing how manmade pollution reaches into the bowels of ...

Food packaging ranks among the top plastic pollutants littering the world’s coastlines, a new study confirms. The study, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Just six pieces of rubber smaller than a pea can be fatal to seabirds, new research shows, revealing shockingly ...

A hungry sea turtle is gliding through the ocean when it spots what looks like the perfect meal. Floating ahead is a soft, translucent shape drifting gently wit ...

Every year, many millions of tons of plastic end up in the ocean. It's a serious and rapidly increasing environmental problem. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

In Florida, a critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle was entangled in a plastic bag that had become filled with sand. The plastic bag had wrapped around the turtle's neck, which likely led it ...

The microplastics crisis will get worse in the next decade and a half even relative to the overall plastics emergency. There are seven main known sources of microplastics: tires, paint, recycling, ...

Plants are quietly absorbing microplastics from soil and air, and those particles can work their way into our food and ecosystems, according to a new review by researchers at Nankai University in ...