Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

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 ...

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 ...

A whole ecosystem of microorganisms, small plants and animals quickly begins to form on the plastic waste drifting in the ocean. It is some of them that produce DMS. You probably know this smell: it ...

The animals travel on currents and start out life in the open ocean after hatching on beaches. But many young turtles swallow plastic as the currents accumulate vast quantities of waste.