Researchers from Tel Aviv University found that marine creatures like ascidians can change the composition of microplastics, ...

eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine animal, researchers say: In one large population, 90 percent of the fledglings had already ingested some. A plastic shard ...

and the 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 plastic ...

Visitors are allowed to feed them specially-made sugar-free crackers, which do not come in plastic packaging ... think they are food and eat them. Nara resident Takashi Nakamura, who runs a ...

Use of disposable plastic instead of glass or stainless ... weights resulted in highly variable food consumption (larger animals eat more than smaller animals), especially for the rats; we used ...

"We want to see how much plastic the island is potentially getting on its shores - so what is in the sediments there - and what the animals are eating," says Ms Hodgson, a postgraduate researcher ...

Rivers of pollution flow into the ocean every day, with little sign of slowing down. Marine animals and birds now regularly eat plastic, and so do humans. It is estimated that by 2050 there could be ...

The findings indicate that the particles are excreted in the feces of marine animals, causing them to be unidentifiable as plastic to the marine environment, but potentially as other organic ...

"Mealworm beetles are storage pests that attack stored grain, but we noticed their presence at a chicken coop where plastic ...

It’s killing and harming marine life. Turtles eat plastic bags mistaking them for jellyfish Seabirds are found with their stomachs full of plastic items Plastic debris can get lodged in coral and ...