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 nostril ... than any other marine animal, researchers say ...

But, rather than being a safe new home, these plastic ... found the first evidence that deep-sea animals had been ingesting microplastics. Researchers found plastic fibres inside the bodies ...

Plastic fills our dumps, homes and oceans. Plastic pollution takes a huge toll on wildlife: More than 700 species, including sea turtles, fish and whales ... nasty chemicals that can be toxic to ...

Once home to the ... 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 ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Many of the sea creatures we love – birds, fish, turtles and whales – die because of the plastic that’s suffocating our seas. Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue ...

initiative to reduce plastic waste—photographer David Liittschwager documented the ubiquity of plastics in ocean water samples. Writer Laura Parker’s reporting took her to a National Oceanic ...

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 ...

Some kinds of rubbish, such as plastic, are eaten by sea creatures ... and people in low-lying coastal areas lose their homes. Marine creatures lose their homes too: some can’t adapt to the ...