"Many suffer limb loss or systemic infection.” Researchers make disturbing discovery after studying sea turtles: 'Unable to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Smells tasty—that might be what sea turtles are thinking when they chow down on sea debris like discarded fishing gear, plastic bags, and cigarette filters.Researchers at the University of North ...

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.

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 ...

The team still doesn’t know exactly which smells emitted from ocean plastic attract sea turtles the most. It will be important to figure out which scents are responsible, the authors write, as more ...

CSIRO/Kathy Townsend, University of Sunshine Coast . A lot of attention has been paid to how ingesting plastic impacts seabirds, fish and sea turtles in recent years. It’s logical to assume that ...