Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

The plastic is not necessarily thrown directly into the sea, but it still ends up there ... In Wales people now pay for every plastic carrier bag. This has resulted in an 80% reduction of the ...

Sea bream and pearls are among the bounty provided ... plastic and hopes to use it as a raw material for items such as plastic bags and sheets used in agriculture. An official with the firm ...

On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril ... and plastic bags. Some 700 species of marine animals ...

Once considered remote and pristine, the Arctic is now succumbing to a tide of plastic. In Norway, a monumental effort is underway to curb its spread.

Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue Planet 2 that “we dump eight million tonnes of plastic into the sea every year”. It’s killing and harming marine life. Turtles eat plastic bags mistaking ...

Research finds sea level rising almost 40% faster than global average, water is saltier, and invasive species comprise more ...