Plastic waste has quietly reshaped the oceans you depend on, and a new global study from Tulane University shows the danger ...

A recent study led by Jasha Dehm, a researcher at the University of the South Pacific, showed that about a third of the fish found in Pacific island countries and territories contain microplastics.

Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

Dangerous concentrations of algae such as "red tides" have been consistently emerging in locations around the world. A region ...

Microplastics are widespread in Pacific island fish, with reef and bottom-dwelling species showing the highest exposure.

Even in some of the most isolated corners of the Pacific, plastic pollution has quietly worked its way into the food web. A large analysis of fish caught around Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu found ...

Microplastics were found in a third of sea life off the coasts of some of the remotest Pacific Islands. The post Even fish ...

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Plastic soy sauce bottles, often shaped like fish and a common sight with takeaway sushi in many countries, have been banned in South Australia. From Monday, restaurants in the state are prohibited ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have demonstrated for the first time the devastating physiological and behavioural effects on fish exposed to the tiny bits of plastic pollution clogging the world's ...

An invention born from a contest at England's University of Surrey might be swimming us closer to cleaner oceans. Researchers have created a robotic fish that doesn’t just collect plastic pollution; ...