The drive initiated by Hu has gone on to be included in China's Blue Circle environmental initiative, which won the 2023 ...

The density of these polymers and the accumulation of marine organisms on plastic surfaces (biofouling) likely help microplastics sink and accumulate in deep-sea sediments. This might explain ...

Hundreds of small plastic white bottles washed up on beaches from Falmouth to Weymouth are believed to have come from a ...

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 report by the environmental advocacy group Oceana found nearly 1,800 marine mammals and sea turtles either swallowed or become entangled in plastic in U.S. waters between 2009 and early 2020.

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 ...

One reason could be tighter marine pollution rules that prevent vessels dumping their waste at sea. The team said monitoring the free-floating plastic also provided an insight into the behaviour ...

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 ...

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. The turtle writhes in agony, bleeding profusely.

The image of a sea creature entangled in plastic is not new, but it never fails to prompt a visceral response from the audience — a mix of guilt and helplessness in the face of a plastic crisis ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers said ...

and the parents will have fed on the plastic when out at sea. It’s awful to think that the parent will have spent potentially up to a fortnight feeding at sea, travelling thousands of miles from ...