Scientists have found microplastics in 114 aquatic species ... and because their characteristics may change as creatures along the food chain consume, metabolize, or excrete them.

For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags. Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to ...

Newborn fish are mistaking tiny bits of trash for food. If they die ... to suffer the fate of most ocean plastic, which is to be shredded into small bits, or microplastics, by waves and sunlight.

It said that, as boats broke up, there were risks microplastics from the wrecks entered the food chain and it had been ... microplastics into the ocean." Abandoning vessels in the area is ...

Once the plastic is in the ocean, it decomposes very slowly, breaking into tiny pieces known as microplastics, which can enter the marine food chain and become incredibly damaging to sea life. The ...

It’s a really useful material that has transformed all our lives, but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean ... the problem back up the food chain and into the food we ...

Researchers found marine fungi capable of breaking down plastic. They tested fungi from Hawai‘i’s nearshore waters.

If you live in an area with high levels of microplastics in the ocean, your community's risk for disabilities could be higher, according to a new study.

Like the lead paint and asbestos of decades past, microplastics are the new awful ... While this foam won’t single-handedly solve our ocean plastic crisis, it represents a promising direction ...

Scientists and Indigenous Skolt Sámi knowledge holders have detected microplastics in the lakes ... species that are on the bottom of the food chain, he said, “We don’t know when a switch ...

It claims as boats break up there is a risk microplastics from the wrecks enter the food chain. The group says ... owners of abandoned vessels. Clean Ocean Sailing Wreck Free Fal is asking people ...