Dozens of countries at the UN oceans summit on Tuesday took a first step toward recognizing an invisible but growing threat ...

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 ...

Within 20 years, the amount of plastic on the sea surface ... the total plastic pollution in the ocean is floating plastic, and that’s what’s most problematic for marine life because it ...

Oceans have absorbed the vast majority of the warming caused by burning fossil fuels and shielded societies from the full ...

To get a sense of how much plastic pollution is expected across the globe ... tiny specks of protein called ‘marine snow,’ that sea life rely on for food. Thus, the plastic gets eaten up ...

The water has receded far and fast from the coastal city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, where the eco-activist has lived his whole life ... The sea here is choked by pollution.

The study points to the compounded effects of human activities on ocean life ... Green sea turtles are producing more females in response to a warming climate — and human-caused pollution ...

But one factor that the industry has – perhaps voluntarily – ignored is the role that container pollution is having on marine life and shorelines ... containers at sea, an unacknowledged ...

“In fact, we see multiple pathways to ending plastic pollution ... to tiny specks of protein called ‘marine snow,’ that sea life rely on for food. Thus, the plastic gets eaten up ...