They have been found on the peak of Mount Everest and in creatures inhabiting the deepest trenches of the sea. They’re in bottled water, human placentas and breast milk. These tiny plastic ...

On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril ... long straw from the creature’s nose.

Researchers from Tel Aviv University found that marine creatures like ascidians can change the composition of microplastics, ...

Many of the sea creatures we love – birds, fish, turtles and whales – die because of the plastic that’s suffocating our seas. Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

But more than 40 percent of it is used just once, and it’s choking our waterways ... It’s then blown or washed into the sea. Imagine five plastic grocery bags stuffed with plastic trash ...

Nearly every piece of plastic ever made still exists today. More than five trillion pieces of plastic are already in the oceans, and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish ...

So what happens when plastic is mixed in water and ingested by humans, animals and sea life? "We, as humans, carelessly dispose of plastic in our water bodies every day. According to the Science ...

But with so much plastic around, Some of it, unfortunately, ends up in the sea. The sea creatures can confuse those colourful plastics with a tasty meal, or even get trapped in plastic waste.