The bar is low, according to a new study, less than three sugar cubes worth could kill birds like Atlantic puffins, for ...

Plastic drifts across the Pacific in no particular hurry. Some pieces have been moving for years, thinning and softening as ...

“During their long journey to Ogasawara Islands, the green turtles are likely to ingest and accumulate plastic distributed ...

A new study looking at the impacts of plastic ingestion by seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals found that relatively small amounts of consumed plastic can be deadly. The research analyzed the ...

People walk by a giant sand art depiction of a humpback whale and calf filled with plastic on the beach in Whitby, England, in 2021. (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images) Ocean plastic kills sea ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, where the numbers are no longer abstract and time is running out to make an ...

KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome issues facing our planet… the plastic problem. It’s a compounding catastrophe that has already ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Just six pieces of rubber smaller than a pea can be fatal to seabirds, new research shows, revealing shockingly ...