Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People walk by a giant sand art depiction of a humpback whale and calf filled with plastic on the beach in Whitby, England, in ...
Oceana researchers found evidence of nearly 1,800 marine animals across 40 species swallowing or becoming entangled in plastic since 2009. Of those animals, 88 percent were species listed as ...
Plastic waste can sit in the environment for centuries. For example, a plastic straw can take around 200 years to break down, according to the World Wildlife Fund. The lifespan of the plastic means it ...
Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...
How do we save whales and other marine animals from plastic in the ocean? Our new review shows reducing plastic pollution can prevent the deaths of beloved marine species. Over 700 marine species, ...
Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. It can obstruct, perforate or twist their airways and gastrointestinal tracts. Now new research shows it takes just 6 pieces of ingested rubber the size of a pencil ...
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