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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study looking at the impacts of plastic ingestion by seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals found that relatively small amounts of consumed plastic can be deadly. The research analyzed the ...

In the lab, crickets readily ingest microplastics and break them down into much smaller and environmentally-hazardous nanoplastics. When given a choice to avoid plastics in their diet, crickets did ...

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 ...