Stranded sea turtles wash ashore often, but to see a rare and endangered one with plastic wrapped around its flipper is alarming. It's important that we do everything we can to help protect them.” ...

Although sea turtles have been chomping down on plastic bags for years, scientists didn't know why -- until now. Plastic bags may smell like a tasty treat because of the bacteria and algae that ...

It became evident that certain types of plastic were more likely to be eaten by the turtles. Around 62 percent of the macroplastic were sheet-like, 41 percent were clear, and 25 percent were white.

A Halloween toy was among hundreds of plastic items found in the guts of dead sea turtles in the Mediterranean, a new study reveals. Researchers examined 135 loggerhead turtles either washed up or ...

Scientists estimate that 15 million tonnes of plastic wash into the ocean every year. Population of sea turtles stands at only 450 currently.

Turtles disfigured from ingesting balloons that twisted up their intestines, seals strangled by packing straps, whales starved to death with a bellyful of plastic.

STORY: These turtles are made from more than 250,000 plastic bottles L: Amchit, LebanonBottles fill the interior, while the caps decorate the exteriorThe project is meant to raise awarenessabout ...

Worldwide, more than half of all sea turtles from all seven species have eaten plastic debris, estimated Britta Denise Hardesty, the paper’s senior author and a principal research scientist with ...

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When Nicolina Pappas was eight years old she came across a video of a sea turtle. One image haunted her: A plastic straw ...

This is why a YouTube video posted in 2015 became so important: one sea turtle led a global movement against plastic straws that still continues today.

Dr Kanga, however, says the number of sea turtles has been declining due to climate change affecting their ecology, plastic pollution, fishermen destroying their nests, and increased human ...