Can plastic cause brain damage in seabirds? Research shows plastic pollution is harming their liver, kidneys, and even memory ...

Sea turtle biologist and New York University Professor Genia Naro-Maciel writes that, while flimsy paper straws may not make ...

Plastic Problems” KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome ...

The Blue Paradox’ exhibit, sponsored by SC Johnson, immerses visitors in the global crisis of plastic pollution, while ...

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

In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...

The researchers will immerse plastic films in freshwater samples (taken from a canal in Lowell) and expose them to ...

Tiny bits of plastic found in the ocean may be tied to a higher risk ... of Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts. "Our study found in coastal communities with higher ...

In seabirds, the evidence is clearer. Nanoplastics have been linked with organ damage in sable shearwaters and are known to ...

Opens in a new tab or window Marine microplastic levels in ocean water ... Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, and colleagues. Marine microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic found in oceans ...