On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril ... than any other marine animal, researchers say ...

Midway will probably vanish under rising ocean levels before the plastic decays. "These are the classic 'canary in the coal mine' scenarios," said Brown. "This is an animal that relies entirely on ...

A computer program counts the plastic pieces and measures each one; the technician uses a microscope to identify the creatures. Whitney and Gove came to ocean science and Hawaii by happenstance.

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...