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.

“It’s ironic to think that many of these plastic single-use items have just been used for minutes by people, yet these coots have used them for decades,” says Auke-Florian Hiemstra, a ...

"In the space of an hour, we saw hundreds of them, including white-headed Egyptian vultures, glistening black cinereous vultures, Eurasian griffons, Himalayan griffons and more," wrote the Indian ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

“We know that there are effects from plastics on animals at nearly all levels of biological organization,” Rochman says. “We know enough to act to reduce plastic pollution from entering the ...

Many of the sea creatures we love – birds, fish, turtles and whales – die because of the plastic that’s suffocating our seas. Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue ...

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) demonstrate that the way sardines eat, altered due to the ...