Bottles and bags, food wrappers and straws. Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people ...

"Plastic Waste Inputs from Land into the Ocean." Science ... so the amount of phytoplankton dictates the number of animals further up the chain. Jennings' 2008 calculations found that there ...

As far back as 1973, seafarers traveling through the North Pacific Ocean noticed an unusually high number of man-made objects. While it’s no surprise to find pieces of plastic in our seas—a ...

but studies on animals have shown harm to DNA and cellular activity as well as a possible cancer risk, according to the researchers. "There's more plastic in the ocean. There's more plastic in ...

One surfer, according to CBS Local Los Angeles, was attacked on Friday by one such “feral, almost demonic” sea lion afflicted by the toxin. The animal bit and dragged the man off his board ...