The ocean is awash with plastic— more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals ...

The presence of small plastic pellets on the beaches of Donostia and Orio has drawn attention to a little-studied source of ...

A submarine dove 5,112 meters into the Mediterranean and uncovered a catastrophic plastic waste crisis.

Along the final stretch of the Seyhan River, in southern Türkiye, plastic bits in various colors dot the water and sediment.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every piece of sea glass has a story − but sea glass could be on the decline. Olga Pankova/Moment When you stroll along a beach, ...

New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million metric tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

A persistent claim shared by high-profile sources such as the United Nations, (archived) (archived) World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (archived) says ...

Pope Francis on Feb. 6 blasted the throwing of plastic in the sea as "criminal" and pleaded for a renewed commitment to caring for the environment. "It kills biodiversity, it kills the Earth, it kills ...

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 ...