Plastic "nurdles" found washed up on England's east coast are likely to have come from a collision involving an oil tanker ...

Clean-up operation under way after pellets from ship collision threaten wildlife - Fires were now out on the container ship ...

Harmful plastic pellets, known as nurdles, are washing up on beaches in Norfolk and around The Wash following a collision ...

The co-owners of an oil tanker involved in a collision with a cargo ship in the North Sea have released the first picture of ...

Plastic nurdles may have spilt from damaged containers on a stricken ship involved in last week’s North Sea collision and started to wash up on English beaches, the owner Ernst Russ said on Tuesday.

Nurdles are tiny pellets used to make plastic products and while they are not toxic can result in the deaths of animals who ...

Every year, an estimated 2.5 billion nurdles – lentil-sized plastic resin pellets – enter Port Phillip Bay through stormwater ...

The co-owners of an oil tanker involved in a collision with a cargo ship in the North Sea have hailed the ‘exceptional bravery’ of the crew and released a picture of some of them.

A spokesperson for the National Trust said: "We can confirm that plastic nurdles have begun to wash ashore on Brancaster Beach and elsewhere along the Norfolk coast, following the North Sea tanker ...

Small plastic pellets washed up on the east coast of the UK, a week after two ships collided in the country’s waters.

Conservationists say it is a ‘real race against time’ after the plastic nurdles began appearing on beaches from the collision ...

Fires have been extinguished aboard a container ship which collided with a tanker in the North Sea off the East Yorkshire coast.