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 ...

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A Duke graduate student led the research into whether ocean plastic trash -- which is routinely found in the guts of stranded ...

We can learn from nature to engineer sustainable solutions," says Ludmilla Aristilde, who led a scientific team identifying how to eliminate the tiniest pieces of plastic from waterways.

It was not until decades later, when I read Rachel Carson’s The Sea All Around Us, that I learned about the Sargasso Sea. It ...

In a fossil-rich pocket of northern New South Wales, two pioneering palaeontologists have spent decades digging up rare ...

Stopping the fast-growing production of plastics is a big part of the solution, says Caiti Waks, who founded the Miami ...

The 10,000 samples currently under analysis will make MICROMar the largest diagnosis of plastic pollution ever ... seeking to identify deep-sea fish species during Deep-Ocean Project expeditions ...