“During their long journey to Ogasawara Islands, the green turtles are likely to ingest and accumulate plastic distributed ...

Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, ...

As recently as the 1960s, perhaps later—within the life span of Tom Hanks, and within a few years of when the world was using its very first ATMs and contraceptive pills—nearly all of the planet’s sea ...

A critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle was found dead by early morning beachgoers Wednesday along the shore near F Street in St. Augustine Beach. The St. Johns County Beach Services department ...

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 ...

Plastic ingestion and entanglement are major issues for sea life. The ocean is awash with plastic—more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals get ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

A matured Loggerhead Sea turtle released by staff from Local conservation makes its way back into the ocean, in Watamu on May 23, 2025. [AFP] A small charity on Kenya’s coast has become vital to ...

Xia (Alice) Zhu receives funding from the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. Chelsea Rochman receives funding from NSERC, ECCC, DFO. Matthew Mazloff receives funding from NASA, NOAA, NSF, UCSD.

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 ...