Seafood is essential to human life, but there is growing evidence that fish may prefer eating plastic to food. Swedish scientists recently demonstrated that larval Perch raised in waters ...

There often are tiny bits of plastic in the fish and shellfish we eat. Scientists are racing to figure out what that means for our health. Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of ...

Newborn fish are mistaking tiny bits of trash for food. If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily ...

Although the study’s findings are limited to a single species, they raise concern for other marine life, say conservationists, who urge immediate action to reduce marine plastic pollution.

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 ...

eating plastic instead of the food they should be eating has the potential to lower the general health and body condition of the birds. If the food supply is generally good and they are still ...

The potential of these landfill microbes could be harnessed to devise more eco-friendly methods for managing non-sanitary, plastic-filled solid waste, the researchers say. The scientists at the ...

From scientists accidentally creating a plastic-eating enzyme to the UK government calling for a ban on all plastic straws and cotton buds, the material is quickly becoming unwanted. Now ...