Period. Bar none,” Savoca says, referring to straws, water bottles, and plastic bags. Some 700 species of marine animals have been reported—so far—to have eaten or become entangled in plastic.

Plastic fills our dumps, homes and oceans ... In addition to the pellets, crackers pollute our rivers and oceans with nasty chemicals that can be toxic to aquatic animals and accumulate in the food ...

Scientists have found microplastics in 114 aquatic ... plastics on animals at nearly all levels of biological organization,” Rochman says. “We know enough to act to reduce plastic pollution ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University are investigating the stranding of three marine animals that washed ashore ...

World Aquatic Animal Day is observed annually on April 3, and the idea of observing this significant day came in 2010 from the Animal Law Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, with ...

Biodegradable plastics, such as polylactic acid (PLA), were introduced as an alternative. However, PLA takes too long to ...

We’ve petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asking the government to regulate plastics as a pollutant under the Clean Water Act and will keep pushing for plastic pollution to be treated ...

Scientists suspected that, among other possibilities, plastic drinking water pipes exposed to extreme heat released the chemicals (SN: 11/13/20). Now, lab experiments show that’s possible.