Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay ... disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them.

Plastic is polluting oceans and national park beaches alike ... they’re just the right size to enter the ocean’s food webs and, eventually, find their way onto our dinner plates. “Microplastics are ...

Now the same team, along with their colleagues, have found signs of dementia-like brain damage, kidney and liver dysfunction, ...

New research shows that increased levels of plastic pollution in the Southern Ocean could reduce the ability of Antarctic krill, a tiny shrimp-like crustacean, to help take CO 2 from the atmosphere.

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...