Ocean Conservancy created a Wildlife Impact Calculator to help you understand the real benefits of your beach cleanups.

Each year, an estimated 24 billion pounds of plastic end up in oceans across the world. Unable to distinguish that trash from natural food sources, many marine animals end up ingesting it. While ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleaning up plastic trash on coastlines can save seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals from harm. Rodolfo Benitez During our ...

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 ...

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 says an amount of plastic “smaller than you might think” in the guts of seabirds and aquatic animals can be fatal, the first time that researchers say they’ve quantified how much can be ...

To a human, microplastics are very small at less than 5 millimeters (mm) wide. But to an insect, microplastics might be the same size as the food they usually eat. Researchers reporting in the journal ...