You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

The tiny bits of plastic pollution that make their way from the environment into our bodies accumulate at much higher concentrations in the human brain than in other organs, a new study shows.

With a stroke of his presidential pen, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that bans the purchase and forced use ...

No more paper straws. President Donald Trump expressed his distaste for biodegradable, paper straws earlier in the week by signing an executive order to get rid of them ...

From a ballet of white-tip reef sharks to a cardinal fish releasing freshly hatched babies from its mouth, these underwater ...

"There are an estimated 174 trillion pieces of micro plastics currently in the ocean and what is out there will continually break up into smaller and smaller pieces due to sunlight and wave action ...

The Ubiquity of Plastic in Our Lives Plastic has become an inevitable part of modern life. If you look around, almost ...

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...

The smallest ones, called nano-plastics, sink deep into the ocean and can end up in plankton. Larger pieces, known as micro-plastics, float in a soup, suspended in water, and are eaten by fish.

Brianna Simon, a conservation biologist and outreach supervisor for Pacific Whale Foundation, was on Sugar Beach in South ...

Researchers say one of the most promising possibilities they have considered would involve building artificial coral reefs that can divert and collect plastic pollutants to improve ocean ...

Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the ...