eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine animal, researchers say: In one large population, 90 percent of the fledglings had already ingested some. A plastic shard ...

Researchers are training ‘mighty’ marine fungi to quickly eat polyurethane, one of our most common plastics. View on euronews ...

Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean.

and the animals that eat them, depend on just how many larval fish make it, and in what condition. The blue glove hasn’t been in the water long enough to suffer the fate of most ocean plastic ...

Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa recently discovered that many species of fungi isolated from Hawai‘i’s ...

There will be more plastic than fish Rivers of pollution flow into the ocean every day, with little sign of slowing down. Marine animals and birds now regularly eat plastic, and so do humans. It is ...

The findings indicate that the particles are excreted in the feces of marine animals, causing them to be unidentifiable as plastic to the marine environment, but potentially as other organic ...

It’s killing and harming marine life. Turtles eat plastic bags mistaking them for jellyfish Seabirds are found with their stomachs full of plastic items Plastic debris can get lodged in coral and ...