Dead sperm whale had 220 pounds of garbage in its stomach, including rope, plastic and gloves.
Researchers on a Scottish island found disturbing items during a necropsy of a juvenile sperm whale: 220 pounds of land and sea debris.
Researchers on a Scottish island found disturbing items during a necropsy of a juvenile sperm whale: 220 pounds of land and sea debris.
Whales with stomachs full of plastic have turned up around the world. Here's what we know.
Now another sea creature is discovering the devastating effects of plastic pollution: hermit crabs. Garbage that has washed ashore has killed more than half a million hermit crabs on remote islands.
If we keep going at this rate, it is estimated there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050.
An amateur photographer has captured an image of a young pup lounging next to a glass Starbucks bottle in the midst of the UK grey pup season in what some say highlights the pervasiveness of human rubbish problems around the world.