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 ...

A dolphin has tragically died from plastic pollution in the waters off Pangasinan after ingesting nearly a kilogram 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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, heart-rending images of dead or dying sea mammals and fish, their stomachs stuffed with plastic, have ...

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 ...

Oceana estimates Coca-Cola will release 1.33B pounds of plastic into oceans by 2030. The company dropped its reuse pledge.

These are small plastic particles that are unable to be seen by the naked eye. Studies show plastic has been recorded to have been ingested by at least 427 different species of fish.

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.