Penn State scientists found microplastics dating back to the 1950s buried in the sediments of a river, two creeks and a lake.

A board of scientists has proposed a system to monitor microplastics in the Great Lakes. Currently, there’s no coordinated ...

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...

Fish, birds, and marine mammals often ... metal straws, and water bottles can go a long way. Reducing plastic pollution is a shared responsibility that requires combined efforts.

Seabirds fill their stomachs with bottle caps instead of fish, and slowly starve ... and there is a push to halve the plastic pollution in the sea by 2030. But with plastic production soaring ...

CHILD: I found this piece of a plastic bottle. CHILD: I found this plastic ... into smaller and smaller parts which get eaten by small fish. Those small fish get eaten by bigger fish which can ...