Why is lost and abandoned fishing gear - so-called “ghost gear” - such a serious problem in the world’s oceans? Jill McKay, ...

The ocean is awash with plastic—more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals get tangled in plastics or swallow them, the chemicals released by the stuff ...

A new study looking at the impacts of plastic ingestion by seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals found that relatively small amounts of consumed plastic can be deadly. The research analyzed the ...

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 ...

The bar is low, according to a new study, less than three sugar cubes worth could kill birds like Atlantic puffins, for ...

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 ...