In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing one of the largest marine oil spills ever. In ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. For the first time, researchers examined data to find out how much it takes. The answer: ...

Using a Bluetooth speaker, a recording of its cries and a small boat, staff and volunteers from The Marine Mammal Center were ...

To date, every family of marine mammal and seabird and all seven species of sea turtles have been documented to ingest ...

New research has found that even small amounts of plastic can be deadly to seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals. While ...

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics – but how much is too much? The bar is ...

By studying more than 10,000 necropsies, researchers now know how much plastic it takes to kill seabirds, sea turtles, and ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...

Fragments of rubber balloons, plastic bags and fishing line can cause fatal blockages and injuries in sea turtles, seabirds ...