Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

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

Flesh-footed shearwaters, large, sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine ...

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

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline ... studio for months—sometimes years—until a critical mass of color emerges. These objects have little in common ...

Tiny pieces of plastic in the ocean could mean an increased risk for ... ‘wild’ Deerfield River Here’s the (good) reason some Mass. pine forests might get cut An AI tool could save lives ...

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

"We were returning to port when I saw something black in the water that didn't look like plastic ... ocean ecosystems. For example, warming waters are putting delicate coral species at risk of ...

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 ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

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

The plastic toys are incredibly durable, but that makes them an absolute nightmare when it comes to ocean pollution ... them to determine how much mass each brick had lost over time.