A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 tons of plastic in the oceans and ...

Inside slicks, the situation was reversed: Microplastics outnumbered larval fish by more than seven to one. On average there was almost 130 times as much plastic inside slicks as outside.

A recent study found a whole plastic spoon's worth of tiny plastic ... "Microplastics are then taken up by plankton and mistaken for food by fish and selfish," Mercola said.

Inside its gut, seven squiggles of plastic ... suffered more liver damage than those that had consumed virgin plastic. (Fish with compromised livers are less able to metabolize drugs, pesticides ...

Researchers were able to examine the fish in great detail using a powerful microscope. See what they discovered.

“At the most basic level, fish will ingest microplastics ... A 12-foot-tall sculpture of a great blue heron made from plastic bottles stands inside the visitors center at the John Heinz National ...