For newborn fish, to eat is to live another day; if their first meal is plastic, they’re not consuming the calories they need to sustain them until the second. “They’ve beaten a lot of odds ...

"But the fact that they're eating these non-nutritious particles ... the researchers discovered that many fish species ingested plastic particles. "We found tiny plastic pieces in the stomachs ...

Seafood is essential to human life, but there is growing evidence that fish may prefer eating plastic to food. Swedish scientists recently demonstrated that larval Perch raised in waters ...

According to a new study published in Frontiers in Toxicology, commonly consumed fish are ridden with microplastics, which ...

"Our dependence on plastic is unsustainable." Company launches transformative fungi-powered technology that can eat through ...

Fish and shrimp are full of tiny particles from clothing, packaging and other plastic products, that could affect our health.

For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags. Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to ...

There often are tiny bits of plastic in the fish and shellfish we eat. Scientists are racing to figure out what that means for our health. Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of ...

The tiny particles that shed from clothing, packaging and other plastic products are winding up in the fish that people eat, highlighting a need for technologies and strategies to reduce microfiber ...