Researchers from Tel Aviv University found that marine creatures like ascidians can change the composition of microplastics, ...

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 ...

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 ...

"This is an animal that relies entirely on the ocean for its survival ... but there is growing evidence that fish may prefer eating plastic to food. Swedish scientists recently demonstrated ...

Turtles can mistake black bin bags, fragments of fishing rope and carrier bags for sea grass, scientists say Green turtles are eating plastic which looks like their diet of sea grass, researchers say.

Endangered wildlife like Hawaiian monk seals and Pacific loggerhead sea turtles are among nearly 700 species that eat and get caught in plastic litter. It's time to get at the root of this ocean ...

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 estimated that by 2050 there could be ...

Plastic pollution takes a huge toll on wildlife: More than 700 species, including sea turtles, fish and whales, eat plastic or get tangled up in ... with nasty chemicals that can be toxic to aquatic ...

Turtles eat plastic bags mistaking ... of reefs Microplastics are consumed by animals like plankton, passing the problem back up the food chain – to us. Plastic is found in the deepest reaches of the ...