Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific ...

For years, marine biologists have called for a ban on plastics, having witnessed firsthand the devastating impact on marine life. However, their pleas largely fell on deaf ears, given how cheap ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtle's nose sparked outrage worldwide and ...

Scientists estimated that a green sea turtle could contain up to 26.4 grams of plastic, equivalent to approximately 10 ping-pong balls. The Conversation reported on the prevalence of plastic ingestion ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, and detected plastics in 7 of the 10 individuals studied. By integrating ...

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 ...

Thousands to millions of tonnes of plastic enter the ocean annually, but where they end up is poorly understood. Scientists have been working to assemble the pieces of the puzzle for years, including ...

Even the most remote regions of the globe are not free from plastic pollution. In a study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil detected ...

Plastic straws are one of the top contributors of plastic pollution in the oceans. With just 9% of straws capable of being recycled worldwide, hundreds of millions to billions make their way into the ...