While littering remains a persistent issue, a more insidious form of pollution has taken center stage : plastic nurdles. These tiny plastic pellets, barely visible to the naked eye, are wreaking ...

In the polluted waters off the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, this seahorse latched onto a plastic cotton swab—“a photo I wish didn’t exist,” says photographer Justin Hofman. PHOTOGRAPH BY ...

Plastic fills our dumps, homes and oceans. Plastic pollution takes a huge toll on wildlife: More than 700 species, including sea turtles, fish and whales, eat plastic or get tangled up in it. Plastic ...

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

noting the Philippines ranks as the second most plastic-polluted country in the world. Cetaceans – marine mammals including whales, dolphins and porpoises – do not drink ocean water but ...