By Elizabeth Claire Alberts New research has found that even small amounts of plastic can be deadly to seabirds, sea turtles ...

The study found seabirds face extreme risk after swallowing just 23 pieces of plastic, giving them a 90% chance of dying.

In a research first, scientists say they studied more than 10,000 marine animal necropsies to calculate how much, or how ...

Adam Feinberg had no sooner made a bright yellow thin sheet of plastic than he had to shred it into little pieces. He chose an “I"-shaped mold for the logo of the University of Illinois at ...

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PALLAKKADU, Sri Lanka (AP) — Conservationists and veterinarians are warning that plastic waste in an open landfill in eastern Sri Lanka is killing elephants in the region, after two more were found ...

To sea turtles, a plastic bag looks like a tasty jellyfish. A lost fishing net might look like some harmless seaweed. But to turtles, plastic pollution is deadly—so deadly that it kills a thousand ...

TOKYO >> Nine deer at a famed park in western Japan have died recently after swallowing plastic bags. Nara Park has more than 1,000 deer, and tourists can feed them special sugar-free crackers sold in ...

The mangrove forests on Java's north coast are slowly suffocating in plastic waste. The plastic problem in northeast Asia is huge and a growing threat to the region's mangroves; a natural alley ...