Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Microplastics are invisible but omnipresent. Musat/iStock via Getty Images Plus Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and ...

Plastic waste is no longer just an eyesore floating on the surface of rivers and seas. A growing body of research now shows ...

Microplastic pollution has contaminated virtually every part of the globe, and it's even turning up in breath samples taken from dolphins. A new study published in the journal PLOS One found that ...

Tiny plastic pieces have spread all over the planet — on land, in the air and even in clouds. An estimated 170 trillion bits of microplastic are estimated to be in the oceans alone. Across the globe, ...

Discover the alarming global crisis of plastic pollution and how it affects our oceans and rivers. This video explores the ...

Dangerous concentrations of algae such as "red tides" have been consistently emerging in locations around the world. A region in Southern Australia is experiencing a nine-month toxic algae bloom that ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

When you think of plastic in the oceans, you might think of the Pacific Garbage Patch being the worst of our problems. However, it turns out there are many more areas of pollution throughout the ...

New science has taken a deep dive into plastic waste, providing the first estimate of how much ends up on the sea floor. New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the ...

Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One. In humans, inhaled ...