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.

Whether microplastics ingested by fish affect ... plastics on animals at nearly all levels of biological organization,” Rochman says. “We know enough to act to reduce plastic pollution from ...

Plastic fills our dumps, homes and oceans ... In addition to the pellets, crackers pollute our rivers and oceans with nasty chemicals that can be toxic to aquatic animals and accumulate in the food ...

"She runs every bit of 25mph and is impossible to corner." Community scrambles to rescue wild animal tangled in hazardous ...

This isn’t the only animal that is suffering ... or plastic? With all the plastic going into and affecting the ocean, saying that “there’s not that much plastic” and “it’s better ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...