The ocean is awash with plastic— more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals ...

Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific evidence, we see how microplastics permeate every sample of beach sand across ...

The peer-reviewed study, led by Ocean Conservancy scientists, gathered previously collected data about more than 10,000 ...

Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. It can obstruct, perforate or twist their airways and gastrointestinal tracts. Now new research shows it takes just 6 pieces of ingested rubber the size of a pencil ...

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 ...

A small piece of plastic — no larger than a baseball — can be enough to kill an adult Florida manatee, according to new findings from Ocean Conservancy. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic pollution could linger on ocean surfaces for over 100 years, researchers warn Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are ...

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 ...

The Ocean Cleanup has removed over 45 million kilograms of plastic from oceans and rivers, but millions of tons still enter ...

Biodegradable plastics could help alleviate the plastic waste crisis that is polluting the environment and harming our health ...

transoceanic or regional introduction of aggressive alien taxa into new areas (Winston et al., 1994). Many questions remain concerning effects of plastics and other debris on the benthos. When they ...

The ocean is awash with plastic—more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals get tangled in plastics or swallow them, the chemicals released by the stuff ...