But typically the consumption of plastic just leads to chronic, unrelenting hunger. Some animals now live in a world of plastics—like these hyenas scavenging at a landfill in Harar, Ethiopia.

Production is expected to double by 2050. There is so much we still don’t know about what eating plastic and other refuse does to marine animals, or why they eat it, or how it makes them feel.

Squeaky stuffed animals are endearing. But when the animal is a real baby bird and its stomach makes crunching noises from ...

Nearly 1,800 animals since 2009 have had life-threatening encounters. A new report details the grim circumstances facing marine animals as millions of pounds of plastic continue to make their way ...

This is the first study first to report a direct interaction between floating plastic debris in the atmosphere and any ...

A new exhibit at the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo features 15 large sculptures made from flip-flops, bottle caps and other ...

Cats like to do their own thing – and somewhat bizarrely, one of the things they seem to love to do, is lick plastic. This ...

Most models haven’t accounted for how microplastics may increase global warming by disrupting natural cycles that store ...

The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it’s unclear how this affects us. Now animal studies are ...

"Due to the sheer quantity of microplastics in the ocean, it would be difficult to find any marine animal without plastic particles in its gut or tissues." Of the seafood most likely to contain ...