Seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals along the California coast can suffer and even die after ingesting plastic, and the ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Led by Ocean Conservancy researchers, the paper is the most comprehensive study yet to quantify the extent to which a range of plastic ...

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 ...

DARE COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A green sea turtle’s story of survival despite the odds is being used to share an important message. A visitor spotted the turtle along the Outer Banks. It had scratches and ...

Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, and detected plastics in 7 of the 10 individuals studied. By integrating ...

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 ...

It's just wrong to have shopping carts full of plastic. We can and must do a better job of ending our addiction to plastic.

A group appears to have made progress in its fight with a U.S. agency over plans to dredge a shipping channel as loggerhead turtles nest. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will participate in a ...