Even if all plastic pollution into the ocean halted tomorrow, “I think it would be at least a quarter of a millennium” before a sea turtle could even hope to be born into a plastic-free life ...

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 ...

This means that researchers would expect 50 percent of sea turtles who have eaten this amount of plastic to die. The scientists also found that if a turtle had at least 226 pieces of plastic in ...

Even just one piece of plastic is enough to increase the odds a sea turtle could die from eating it, says a study from Australia. Researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial ...

A dead sea turtle with a plastic bag. Public Domain "Experts we surveyed found that entanglement in plastic and other pollution could pose a long-term impact on the survival of some turtle ...

Plastic debris poses a threat to around 700 species of marine animals, including sea turtles and whales, through ingestion and entanglement, according to the study.

And how much plastic is lethal for a sea turtle? A new study has some answers. Green turtle at North Stradbroke Island, off the Australian state of Queensland. Image by Kathy Townsend.

Sea turtles think plastic smells like food New explanation for why sea predators are eating so much plastic Cathleen O'Grady – Mar 14, 2020 10:00 am | 29 A turtle ...

The Sea Turtle Conservancy estimates that over 1 million marine animals, including mammals, fish, sharks, turtles and birds, die each year due to plastic debris in the ocean and there are likely ...

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 often look like seagrass to the turtles, a staple of… ...

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 ...

A group of 15 captive loggerhead turtles in tanks were exposed to a bunch of different scents, including the scent of water, of food like shrimp and of new and ocean-soaked plastic, according to ...