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

And millions of tiny plastic pellets known as nurdles have been found washed up on the east coast of England - leading to concerns about their impact on seabirds and marine life. The Coastguard has ...

Wildlife organisations have said it is a race against time to clear plastic pellets from beaches which are thought to have come from a collision involving two ships. The pellets are thought to have ...

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 ...

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 ...

A spokesperson for the National Trust said: "We can confirm that plastic nurdles have begun to wash ashore on Brancaster ...

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

An urgent mission is under way to remove pollution debris from Norfolk's beaches, before it causes environmental catastrophe.

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

Chief coastguard Paddy O'Callaghan said they were told on Sunday there had been a sighting in waters off the Wash of a "sheen that we now know to be plastic nurdles" and a team was clearing them.