Many marine and land animals are harmed by plastic pollution. Here are some animals that are most affected by plastic ...

On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril ... than any other marine animal, researchers say ...

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, 14 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year, causing harm to marine life. Animals can get tangled up in plastic ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

A computer program counts the plastic pieces and measures each one; the technician uses a microscope to identify the creatures. Whitney and Gove came to ocean science and Hawaii by happenstance.

Midway will probably vanish under rising ocean levels before the plastic decays. "These are the classic 'canary in the coal mine' scenarios," said Brown. "This is an animal that relies entirely on ...

In Sindh, a province in Pakistan, officials have instated a complete ban on a common form of pollution: plastic bags. ...

"Plastic Waste Inputs from Land into the Ocean." Science ... so the amount of phytoplankton dictates the number of animals further up the chain. Jennings' 2008 calculations found that there ...

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 ...

Many of the sea creatures we love – birds, fish, turtles and whales – die because of the plastic that’s suffocating our seas. Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

Sea creatures keep showing up dead in California waters, and researchers may have an answer as to why. It has to do with ...