16 rice sacks, 4 banana bags and multiple shopping bags were found during an autopsy of a young male Cuvier’s beaked whale that washed up on a beach in the Philippines

Seabirds are much more likely to die from ingesting balloon fragments than hard plastics, researchers have found.

Dutch scientists have begun a mass autopsy after the sudden death of an estimated 20,000 guillemots off the Dutch coast, hundreds of which washed up on the country’s beaches.

A new restriction proposal could reduce the amount of microplastics released to the environment in the EU by about 400,000 tonnes over 20 years.

The colour of the oceans could be about to change. That’s according to a new study by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The study found that because climate change is affecting the oceans ecosystems, this could alter the colour of the water as early as the end of the twenty-fi

An unprecedented science mission is on its way to gauge the impact of climate change as well as search for new species.

Dutch authorities are warning the public to stay away from some of the 270 containers that a cargo ship lost off the northern coast of the Netherlands as a clean up continues.

The agreement targets the 10 most common plastic products washed up on European shores

A dead whale found with plastic garbage in stomach was buried at an Indonesian beach

Collin's dictionary names 'single-use' as word of the year, as the EU's single-use plastic ban faces the next hurdle in Brussels