For years, marine biologists have called for a ban on plastics, having witnessed firsthand the devastating impact on marine life. However, their pleas largely fell on deaf ears, given how cheap ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle was found dead by early morning beachgoers Wednesday along the shore near F Street in ...

KALBA, United Arab Emirates — The hawksbill sea turtle lay belly-up on the metal autopsy table, its shell ashen and stomach taut. A week ago, the adolescent turtle washed up on a beach in Kalba, a ...

Christine Figgener poses with a turtle on a mission to rescue females stuck in a nearby river in Ostional, Costa Rica in 2011. Christine Figgener poses with a turtle on a mission to rescue females ...

All over the world, sea turtles are swallowing bits of plastic floating in the ocean, mistaking them for tasty jellyfish, or just unable to avoid the debris that surrounds them. Now, a new study out ...

A tiny turtle who was rescued by the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, pooped plastic for six days. In a video on the Zoo's Twitter page, the veterinary nurse Sarah Male explains that the little ...

New explanation for why sea predators are eating so much plastic I had never thought about life, uhhhh, finding a way uhhhh and clinging to plastic in the oceans. Fascinating and yet heartbreaking and ...

I received the following questions from students doing a project on turtle conservation at the Lund International School in Sweden. Q. How do plastic products in the environment affect turtles and ...

Green turtles are more likely to swallow plastic that resembles their natural diet of sea grass, new research suggests. The turtles strongly favour narrow lengths of plastic in natural colours like ...

Plastic straws are one of the top contributors of plastic pollution in the oceans. With just 9% of straws capable of being recycled worldwide, hundreds of millions to billions make their way into the ...