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 ... long straw from the creature’s nose.

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A photograph of a stunning creature also captured a terrible predicament all too common in our polluted world. What's ...

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Sea turtle biologist and New York University Professor Genia Naro-Maciel writes that, while flimsy paper straws may not make ...

Plastic Problems” KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

Many of the sea creatures we love – birds, fish, turtles and whales – die because of the plastic that’s suffocating our seas. Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue ...

But with so much plastic around, Some of it, unfortunately, ends up in the sea. The sea creatures can confuse those colourful plastics with a tasty meal, or even get trapped in plastic waste.