A Reddit user shared a picture of mysterious objects that washed up on the beach during their vacation in Europe. The Redditor shared the picture on r/whatisthisthing, a forum dedicated to identifying ...

A crew on board a ship belonging to the nonprofit Ocean Voyages Institute made an unusual discovery while cleaning trash out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — the largest accumulation of ocean ...

The World Wildlife Federation says 150,000 to 500,000 tons of plastic objects end up in European seas each year Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Rocks in Trader Joe’s cookies. Insects in ...

New research finds that people are inhaling thousands of particles of plastic that "enter deep into our respiratory system" Getty Images Humans inhale nearly 70,000 pieces of plastic a day — and ...

The natural assumption is that for a device to wirelessly communicate with another, it needs some basic electronics inside and a source of power. But researchers from the University of Washington have ...

Rocks in Trader Joe’s cookies. Insects in its broccoli-cheese soup. Pieces of plastic in Banquet frozen chicken strips. In recent weeks, U.S. consumers have seen high-profile food recalls for an ...