The strangest fish in the sea spotted at Hampton's North Beach

A visiting ocean sunfish off North Beach offered beachgoers a glimpse of one of the ocean’s most unusual giants.

Every fish tested in Yamuna carried microplastics. What it means for your dinner plate

Scientists discovered microplastics in every fish species sampled from the Yamuna River. Fish from Delhi's stretch showed ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades

Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution ...

Tangled seaweed inspires one-size-fits-all cleaners for ocean microplastics

Inspired by naturally occurring mats and balls of seaweed, researchers have created highly porous, superadhesive meshes ...
Scientific American

An Ichthyosaur’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 160 million years ago

A rare fossil find shows a tooth embedded an ichthyosaur’s vertebra, where it was likely left when a giant pliosaurid chomped ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

'Most Isolated Environments': Microplastics Are Finding Their Way Down to Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents

(Kiattisakch/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Our planet clearly has a microplastics problem: These tiny synthetic fragments are ...
The New York Times

Microplastics Are Everywhere. Here’s How to Avoid Eating Them.

We independently review everything we recommend. We may make money from the links on our site. Learn more› By Katie Okamoto Katie Okamoto is an editor focusing on sustainability. She’s covered the ...