Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

“Around 2,000 waxworms can break down an entire polyethylene bag in as little as 24 hours, although we believe that ...

Why wasn’t this ever mentioned in The Very Hungry Caterpillar? It turns out, some caterpillars aren’t content with eating through apples, salami, and a piece of cherry pie – they're insatiable ...

Plastics play a fundamental role in modern life, but their resistance to biodegradation makes them very difficult to dispose ...

Boaters off the coast of California got the chance to witness a massive feeding frenzy among sea creatures. On July 5, during ...

"As far as the eye could see." Photojournalist alarmed after documenting 'dystopian' scene along popular beaches: 'I could ...

All animals can be reservoirs of plastic pollution, but to understand just how much ocean plastic pollution is stored in ocean life, we used sea turtles as a case study.

Plastic pollution harms animals like seabirds, sea turtles, and fish, causing injuries, starvation, or poisoning. Sea turtles often eat plastic bags, thinking they are jellyfish. This can block ...

As a who studies plastic ingestion by marine wildlife, I can count on the same question whenever I present research: “How does plastic affect the animals that eat it?” This is one of the ...

Plastic pollution is filtering up into the fish that we eat Oysters, tuna and other wild-caught fish we eat often contain microplastics By Matthew Rozsa Staff Writer Published March 8, 2023 9:30AM ...

It turns out that floating plastic debris provides the perfect platform on which algae thrives. As the algae breaks down, emitting the DMS odor, sea birds, following their noses in search of krill ...