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

Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific ...

In March 2025, a collision out in the North Sea led to millions of tiny plastic pellets reaching our shores. A mass clear-up ...

As a result, thousands of kilograms of plastic waste are being added to marine waters, posing a serious risk to fish, shrimp ...

Plastic waste has quietly reshaped the oceans you depend on, and a new global study from Tulane University shows the danger runs deeper than floating bottles and bags. Scientists have now mapped where ...

A small piece of plastic — no larger than a baseball — can be enough to kill an adult Florida manatee, according to new ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtle's nose sparked outrage worldwide and ...

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 ...

Underwater photograph in the Mediterranean Sea of waste pollution with a plastic bag in Ajaccio on the island of Corsica in the south of France on 15 August 2024. MARTIN BERTRAND Hans Lucas/AFP via ...