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

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.

The research highlights how filter feeders alter the behavior and composition of microplastics, creating unforeseen risks.

The final episode of the BBC's Blue Planet II warned about the dangers of sea creatures eating plastic microparticles, which come from bigger plastic items breaking down in the water.

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.