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

A Chinese national living in Brooklyn tried to smuggle $1.4 million worth of protected turtles wrapped in masking tape out of the United States — by passing them off as “plastic animal toys,” ...

A new study shows that very small amounts of plastic can kill marine animals and that fragments now appear in common foods ...

Almost 1,800 marine animals ate or were caught up in plastic trash in the last decade, according to a new report that has compiled data on U.S. strandings. Among the hardest-hit creatures were sea ...

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A new report examines how plastic waste affects marine wildlife. By Catrin Einhorn How severely the world’s plastic waste crisis is affecting marine wildlife is not fully understood, despite decades ...