A group of boaters in Malta sprang into action after spotting a distressed sea turtle trapped in plastic netting while out on ...

Dozens of wildfires are raging across the western United States, burning homes and national forest lands and forcing the ...

Thousands to millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean annually, but where they end up is poorly understood. All animals can be reservoirs of plastic pollution, but to understand just how much ocean ...

Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, and detected plastics in 7 of the 10 individuals studied. By integrating ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Dead sea turtles have been discovered with a vast array of plastic ...

A new study looking at the impacts of plastic ingestion by seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals found that relatively small amounts of consumed plastic can be deadly. The research analyzed the ...

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 ...

Scientists have new evidence to explain why plastic is dangerous to sea turtles: the animals mistake the scent of plastic for food. Thus, a plastic bag floating in the sea not only looks like a ...

Gently, Kenzo the sea turtle is lowered onto a beach where a scattering of bottle caps, candy wrappers, yoghurt cups and discarded flipflops scar an otherwise idyllic setting. As its human handlers ...

Two baseballs for a sea turtle. Three sugar cubes for a puffin. A soccer ball for a harbor porpoise. That’s roughly how much ingested plastic would be deadly for each animal, according to a study ...

The Newport Aquarium unveiled a sea turtle sculpture built entirely from 140 pounds of recycled plastic and materials ...