For newborn fish, to eat ... plastic.A dollop of surface water from the English Channel contains a shrimplike krill, about a third of an inch long; a smaller decapod crustacean; and an orange sea ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised ... there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish (by ...

There often are tiny bits of plastic in the fish and shellfish we eat. Scientists are racing to ... Debra Lee Magadini positions a slide under a microscope and flicks on an ultraviolet light.

For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags. Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to ...

Marine animals and birds now regularly eat plastic, and so do humans. It is estimated that by 2050 there could be more plastic in the sea than fish. As the plastic piles up, fish disappear. Since ...

Many of the sea creatures we love – birds, fish, turtles and whales ... 2 that “we dump eight million tonnes of plastic into the sea every year”. It’s killing and harming marine life. Turtles eat ...