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.

Scientists estimate a garbage truck's worth of plastic waste enters the oceans every minute, where large debris threatens fish, sea turtles and marine mammals with entanglement and smaller plastics ...

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, ...

Plastic pollution fills our oceans, choking wildlife and carrying toxins throughout the food web — yet industry is increasing U.S. plastic production using our oversupply of fracked gas. • Secured ...

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.

They listen for garbage trucks and find much of their food in trash. PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN LEHMANN On Okinawa, Japan, a hermit crab resorts to a plastic bottle cap to protect its soft abdomen.

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 ...

Scientists estimate a garbage truck's worth of plastic waste enters the oceans ... with entanglement and smaller plastics enter the ocean food web. Health researchers are raising concerns about ...