On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s ... unrelenting hunger. Some animals now live in a world of ...

There are many ways to reduce plastic, and although it’s hard, it’s not impossible — that is plainly an excuse. We have to do ...

From the hermit crabs forced to live in toothpaste lids ... the first evidence that deep-sea animals had been ingesting microplastics. Researchers found plastic fibres inside the bodies of ...

Midway will probably vanish under rising ocean levels before the plastic decays. "These are the classic 'canary in the coal mine' scenarios," said Brown. "This is an animal that relies entirely on ...

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 ...

Marine animals and birds now regularly eat plastic, and so do humans ... Certain organisms like burrowing sea urchins and mud shrimp that live within the seafloor are really important for nutrient ...