In the waters of a marina near the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in England, a group of mussels are busy at work: filtering the water for microplastics. As the bivalves feed, they suck bacteria, algae, ...

Scientists discovered human-made microplastics in the hindguts of amphipods from the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on ...

If you pulled 1,000 liters (264 gallons) of water out of the ocean, how many small bits of plastic would you expect to find? Ten pieces? One hundred pieces? How about 8.3 million pieces of what ...

Off the coasts of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea swirls an omnipresent yet vanishingly small menace: microplastics. By this point, it comes as no surprise to scientists that they would ...

Microplastics pose a huge threat to aquatic life – particularly large filter feeders such as whale sharks, manta rays, and baleen whales. Filter feeders are at high risk because of their constant ...

This resource is part of Science Friday’s Educator Phenomena Forum and was developed collaboratively by Chenille Williams, an educator at the Richland County Department of Public Works, and Timnit ...

Tiny plastic fragments in the water pose threats to the largest animals of the ocean, particularly, whales and whale sharks. Microplastics Pose Threat To Giant Sea Creatures In a new study published ...

On a journey along the Arctic Ocean, Canadian researchers collected bits of the sea and discovered pieces of microplastic smaller than sesame seeds scattered in all but one sample. In a deeper ...