A free online calculator shows the number of seabirds, turtles and marine mammals you help protect by cleaning up plastic ...
Animals are swallowing or becoming entangled in plastic, nearly 40 different species in the U.S. Non-profit ocean conservation organization Oceana reports data of the impact of plastic waste on marine ...
Oceana researchers found evidence of nearly 1,800 marine animals across 40 species swallowing or becoming entangled in plastic since 2009. Of those animals, 88 percent were species listed as ...
Plastic pollution, from the Great Pacific garbage patch to plastic showing up in the food chain, is known to be a major problem. Researchers have now found that even in pristine environments like the ...
Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...
Three species of bacteria in combination are capable of breaking down PAE diethyl phthalate, an important component in ...
A new study looking at the impacts of plastic ingestion by seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals found that relatively small amounts of consumed plastic can be deadly. The research analyzed the ...