Plastic pollution is a severe environmental issue, especially affecting our oceans. Each year, millions of tons of plastic ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean ... breaking into tiny pieces known as microplastics, which can enter the marine food chain and become incredibly damaging to sea life. The main source ...

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 ... heartbreaking images of its impact ...

All over the world, researchers like Magadini are staring through microscopes at tiny pieces of plastic—fibers, fragments, or microbeads—that have made their way into marine and freshwater ...

Indeed, during the docu-series, and in the final episode in particular, viewers see first-hand just how much plastic is floating around our seas, the impact it has on marine life, and the damage it ...

For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags. Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to ...

This raises further concerns about the long-term ecological implications, as smaller microplastics are more easily ingested by marine organisms, potentially disrupting food chains and ...

that use nuclear and isotopic techniques to study pollution processes and fingerprint pollutants’ sources. Contaminants that end up in coastal waters may accumulate in marine organisms through the ...