Spotted seals in some of the most remote marine areas around Alaska are consuming significant amounts of microplastics in their diets, according to a new University of Alaska Fairbanks–led study. The ...

The City Council of Niteroi, in the Brazilian State of Rio de Janeiro, said Civil Defense agents and biologists were monitoring a fur seal spotted on Itaipuaçu beach, in Maricá, last Sunday ...

New research reveals that microplastics are being passed from pregnant spotted seals to their unborn ... wildlife and ecosystems. Northern fur seals have been declining since the 1950s, per ...