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 ...

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 ...

A lot of the plastic we use ends up in the seas and oceans. Plastic pollution at sea can poison animals, ruin their habitats and make it harder for them to find food. But there are things that we ...

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 ...