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

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

Amid a tidal wave of plastic blanketing the world, many F&B companies are seeking ways to reduce the amount of new plastic ...

Despite clear evidence that plastic is clogging oceans and beaches and breaking down into microplastics that enter our bodies ...

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

For the average person, trying to avoid plastics can feel overwhelming—and maybe pointless. Our writer asked two experts how ...

I used to think of ocean plastic as a slow, vague threat—something that chokes turtles and whales only after years of ...

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

In a research first, scientists say they studied more than 10,000 marine animal necropsies to calculate how much, or how little, plastic can be fatal to sea birds, sea turtles and mammals like ...

Microplastics are already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up, they are becoming a much bigger and more hazardous problem, according to a new analysis ...