Maciel writes that, while flimsy paper straws may not make drinkers happy, there are many alternatives to returning to ...

On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril ... and plastic bags. Some 700 species of marine animals ...

On Tuesday, staff from the Boca Raton, Florida-based marine life center posted a sad image on Facebook of a deceased baby sea turtle next ... had 88 lbs. of plastic bags in its stomach, while ...

Combined with the fact that floating plastics, especially plastic bags, can mimic the physical appearance of food that sea turtles enjoy, like jellyfish, and you have a recipe for disaster.

MUROTO, Kochi Prefecture--An endangered leatherback sea turtle found dead in a fishing net in local waters here in June had swallowed two plastic bags, an autopsy of its stomach contents showed.

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

A rescued turtle expelled plastic pollution that it had swallowed in the sea. Turtle 919 was rescued ... are one of the biggest threats to marine life. Strong ocean currents can carry ghost ...