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

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Just six pieces of rubber smaller than a pea can be fatal to seabirds, new research shows, revealing shockingly ...

Ingesting just six pieces of rubber—each smaller than a pea—can all but seal a seabird’s fate, leaving it with a 90 percent chance of death. A 300-pound adult green sea turtle has about a 50 percent ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

Plastic ingestion and entanglement are major issues for sea life. The ocean is awash with plastic—more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals get ...

Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. It can obstruct, perforate or twist their airways and gastrointestinal tracts. Now new research shows it takes just 6 pieces of ingested rubber the size of a pencil ...