Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. For the first time, researchers examined data to find out how much it takes. The answer: ...

By Elizabeth Claire Alberts New research has found that even small amounts of plastic can be deadly to seabirds, sea turtles ...

Researchers examined more than 10,000 animal autopsies to figure out how much plastic is too much for ocean wildlife ...

The study found seabirds face extreme risk after swallowing just 23 pieces of plastic, giving them a 90% chance of dying. Marine mammals reach similar danger at 29 pieces, while sea turtles need to ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly.

The ocean is awash with plastic— more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals ...

Fragments of rubber balloons, plastic bags and fishing line can cause fatal blockages and injuries in sea turtles, seabirds ...

In a research first, scientists say they studied more than 10,000 marine animal necropsies to calculate how much, or how ...

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics—but how much is too much?

A new study shows that very small amounts of plastic can kill marine animals and that fragments now appear in common foods ...

Plastic cups and discarded fishing nets carelessly thrown into the sea have become the most lethal 'shadow killers' for ...