On the other side of the world, in the Mediterranean Sea, an island of plastic has emerged. The images offer a glimpse of just how much plastic is resting in our waters.

Plastic has history of entangling birds, sea lions, dolphins, and whales On the coast of Sausalito, the Marine Mammal Center regularly rehabilitates injured animals, including those entangled in ...

A new review warns that plastic pollution is causing disease and death from infancy to old age, costing $1.5 trillion annually in health damages.

“Nanoplastics make up the dominant fraction of marine plastic pollution,” Materić says. In the entire world’s oceans, it is estimated that there are around 3 million tonnes of floating ...

In a powerful appeal to the fishing community and sea-goers, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MECC) has emp ...

From mermaid’s tails to Lego dragons, ‘Bizarre Beachcombing’ was a collection of all manner of strange objects lost at sea ...

It's not a sound commonly associated with birds. But a colony of flesh-footed shearwaters 'crack and crunch' because they've consumed so much plastic, experts have revealed.

School children were asked to draw pictures of how they imagined the world's oceans in 2070 - and the images were filled with plastic pollution and dead fish ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The researchers found nanoplastics were more concentrated by coastlines and near ...

Powerful Mediterranean storms which devastated Valencia have had another consequence: transporting plastic pollution to the sea. It's estimated thousands of tonnes of plastic waste from ...

Microplastics, including plastic pellets are now found everywhere — in our oceans, seas and even in the food we eat. Each year, the equivalent of up to 7,300 truckloads of plastic pellets are lost to ...