Microplastic pollution has contaminated virtually every part of the globe, and it's even turning up in breath samples taken from dolphins. A new study published in the journal PLOS One found that ...
Researcher holding small pieces of micro plastic pollution washed up on a beach. (File/Alistair Berg/Getty Images) Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are ...
The ocean is under increasing pressure. Everyday human activities, from shipping to oil and gas exploration to urban ...
Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...
PUERTO NARINO, Colombia -- A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river ...
How are wild dolphins faring on the high seas? Recent reports of dolphin deaths in the Gulf of Mexico may well be due to last year’s BP oil spill, but I imagine there are many threats to dolphins from ...
Dolphins are usually grey and quick in the open ocean. In rivers, though, they can be different. In the Amazon, there’s a ...
Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One. In humans, inhaled ...