MARINE life in one of ­Scotland’s biggest estuaries has been found to be riddled with pollution caused by ­plastic ­despite ... firth’s entire marine food chain is affected.

Plastic pollution is ... waters and in marine biota. This has far-reaching impacts on ecosystems, including harm to marine animals, and has the potential to impact food webs and habitats," she ...

Plastic pollution is a severe environmental ... plastics contain toxic chemicals that can leach into marine organisms, posing health risks across the food chain. Microplastics, tiny particles ...

Today, we need look no further than the New Jersey-size dead zone that forms each summer in the Gulf of Mexico, or the thousand-mile-wide belt of plastic ... global food chain. Marine pollution ...

in which contaminants travel up the food chain. The results were recently published in the journal Environmental Pollution. “All three plastic types were found in scats containing rodent remains ...

Scientists are finding more evidence of a new, insidious form of plastic pollution ... danger to marine life because they can break down into microplastics that then enter the food chain, and ...

The bay of Illa Grossa, located on a remote island in the Columbretes Islands marine reserve ... themselves. Plastic pollution is harming invertebrates at the bottom of the food chain, including ...