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 ...

These plastic particles, measuring less than 5 millimeters ... including the air, soil and water. The process by which these plastics accumulate in organisms across different levels of the ...

Food & Water Watch experts explain the dangers of microplastic pollution in our drinking water and our work toward regulations.

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 ...

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 ...

Three plastic containers were holding 10 iguanas ... exporting animals from the kingdom without a permit and attempting to ...

including grocery bags and shards of a hard plastic container, according to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in the Ilocos region. The marine animal, a species of dolphin, was ...