A short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) became the latest marine mammal to fall victim to plastic pollution ...

There often are tiny bits of plastic in the fish ... Studying the impacts of marine microplastics on human health is challenging because people can’t be asked to eat plastics for experiments ...

Flesh-footed shearwaters, large, sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine ...

A dolphin has tragically died from plastic pollution in the waters off Pangasinan after ingesting nearly a kilogram of ...

More information: Ronja M. Steinbach et al, Marine fungi degrade plastic and can be conditioned to do it faster, Mycologia (2024). DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2024.2422598 Provided by University of ...

Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue Planet 2 that “we dump eight million tonnes of plastic into the sea every year”. It’s killing and harming marine life. Turtles ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

Seaweed-based edible sachets are revolutionizing packaging, allowing you to enjoy your ketchup without contributing to ...

The award-winning documentary A Plastic Ocean by Australian journalist Craig Leeson investigates the devastating impact plastic has had on our environment, especially our marine life. Young Post ...