Plastic waste is washing into the ocean at an-ever-increasing rate and a new study out Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, by Oceana found that 88% of the sea turtles and marine mammals to have been killed ...

Death by plastic: Sea turtles, marine mammals imperiled ... The Plastics Crisis Unfolding in our Oceans" is the first compilation of data spanning 2009 to early 2020 from 51 marine life groups and ...

Of the 1,800 animals in the study, 700 of them were Florida manatees. Of those, 99% had swallowed plastic fishing line, and in dozens of those cases, it was a major cause of death.

Of the 1,792 animals that swallowed or became entangled in plastic, 861 were sea turtles, including all six U.S. species, and 931 were marine mammals from 34 different species, Oceana said.

Green turtles are at risk of death from the plastic floating in the oceans because they think it is food, according to a new study. The plastics, which are often green, black or clear in color ...

Plastic pollution presents a growing threat to marine life. According to a 2014 analysis , 5 trillion pieces of plastic (weighing a combined 250,000 tons) are floating in the oceans.

By the time marine biologist Darrell Blatchley arrived at the fishing village Saturday, the young Cuvier’s beaked whale was already floating, dead in the water, its eyes sunken and ribs protr… ...

Plastic is poisoning our waters, and our marine life is suffering. In 2012, a Guadalupe fur seal was found dead on the Washington coast with an 8-inch piece of plastic in its stomach.

Among the seafaring mammals focused on by the report, sea turtles accounted for 48% of the 40 species documented to have plastic-related deaths in U.S. waters. This included the endangered green, l… ...

Amid the growing call for reducing the use of plastics, the environmental group Oceana has issued the first ever compilation of the material’s gruesome impact on sea turtles and marine mammals ...