But typically the consumption of plastic just leads to chronic, unrelenting hunger. Some animals now live in a world of plastics—like these hyenas scavenging at a landfill in Harar, Ethiopia.

A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 tons of plastic in the oceans and ...

High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows ... The main process affected was morphogenesis—an organism developing its shape ...

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 ...

There often are tiny bits of plastic ... on animals at nearly all levels of biological organization,” Rochman says. “We know enough to act to reduce plastic pollution from entering the oceans ...

Marine animals and birds now regularly eat plastic, and so do humans ... like marlin and sharks, it disrupts the oceans, with consequences that can affect us all. 'Overfishing puts the whole ocean ...

Midway will probably vanish under rising ocean levels before the plastic decays. "These are the classic 'canary in the coal mine' scenarios," said Brown. "This is an animal that relies entirely on ...

Plastic fills our dumps ... 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 chain. The oil ...

Pharmaceutical pollution in waterways is changing animal behavior. Exposure to an antianxiety drug is affecting migrating Atlantic salmon, according to a new study.

In the ocean the plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller parts, which can be eaten by fish and thus enter the food chain. So it is a problem not just for marine animals but also for humans.