microplastics
Manta rays strain their tiny food from mouthfuls of seawater in a novel way that
New study finds microplastics in the stomachs of 73 percent of mesopelagic fish caught in the
Tiny plastic particles also present a threat to creatures on land and may have damaging
More than five trillion pieces of plastic debris are estimated to be in our oceans,
Microplastics are increasingly seen as an environmental problem of global proportions. While the focus to
Scientists have found evidence of microfibers ingested by deep sea animals, revealing for the first
Tiny microscopic animals called zooplankton are ingesting plastic particles at an alarming rate, according to
Around four billion minute fibres could be littering each square kilometre of some of the
Previously undocumented in North American rivers, concentrations of microplastic particles in the St. Lawrence are
It has been suggested that 10 per cent of plastic which is thrown away ends
Tiny particles of waste plastic that are ingested by shoreline “eco-engineer” worms may be negatively
Microplastics have become a big concern in the world’s oceans and estuaries. Water pollution remains