Microplastics are found in oceans and waterways all over the world. We are only just beginning to understand the damage they ...

Researchers working across Island Nations in the South Pacific discovered that the plastics turning up in these fish were ...

A third of fish living in the remote coastal waters of the Pacific Island Countries and Territories are contaminated with microplastics, with especially high rates in Fiji, according to an analysis ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

Fish have been quietly perfecting a way to sift tiny particles from water for millions of years, and engineers are finally catching up. A new generation of fish-inspired filters now promises to strip ...

With worldwide annual plastic production rising from 1.5 million tons in 1950 to 367 million tons in 2020, it should come as no surprise that, in recent years, particles of discarded plastics have ...

It’s one of nature’s healthiest wild foods, the backbone of a major industry in the Pacific Northwest and deeply embedded in the diets and cultures of Indigenous people in the region. But it, too, has ...

A persistent claim shared by high-profile sources such as the United Nations, (archived) (archived) World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (archived) says ...

In January, researchers published the findings of their new study in the journal PLOS One, which analyzed 878 fish from 138 species collected from coastal communities on some of the world's most ...