Some of the world's deepest-living sea creatures have been feeding on plastic for at least 40 years, according to new research. Scientists examined archived specimens of animals collected more ...

This week's episode focuses on how plastic affects sea creatures. "There would rarely be a dive where I wouldn't find some form of plastic from a thread of plastic fishing line, sweet wrappers or ...

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.

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 ...

As detailed by The Phuket News, officers from the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources were called to the scene after a ...

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.

Microscopic creatures vastly important to marine life are gobbling up harmful plastic fibres ... synthetic microfibres shed and flushed out to sea when we wash our clothes, said scientist ...

This could help reduce the amount of plastic waste in the ocean, lessening the incidence of sea creatures eating plastic or becoming entangled in it. To achieve this, the team has created plastic ...