A plastic shard piercing an intestine can kill a bird quickly. But typically the consumption of plastic just leads to chronic, unrelenting hunger. Some animals ... eat plastic because it smells ...

If they die ... animals that eat them, depend on just how many larval fish make it, and in what condition. The blue glove hasn’t been in the water long enough to suffer the fate of most ocean ...

In its June issue, National Geographic magazine has published a selection of startling photos ... plastic choking the world's oceans, shorelines and rivers. Wildlife, particularly marine animals ...

The never ending surge of plastic into the world's oceans is taking an increasing ... able to deduce the role of plastic in causing death - if an animal had ingested more than 200 pieces of ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

They added that the loss of the animal ... Plastic was also responsible for the death of Billy, a beloved Lantau bull Aged around four months when she was found, Marium became famous after photos ...