Research on microplastics is still ongoing — but what we know so far is deeply troubling. Researchers uncover alarming issue ...

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...

Combined with the fact that floating plastics, especially plastic bags, can mimic the physical appearance of food that sea turtles enjoy, like jellyfish, and you have a recipe for disaster.

A new study finds microplastics in nearly every organ of stranded sea turtles, including their reproductive systems.

making this one of the largest studies of marine turtles and plastic debris ever conducted. Plastic sheets — likely bits of bags and plastic wrap — were the most commonly ingested type of plastic, but ...

Marine animals like sea turtles have evolved for millions of years in plastic-free environments, and are thus ill-equipped to navigate recent pollutants like straws, plastic bags, six-pack rings ...

The turtle writhes in agony ... Bar none,” Savoca says, referring to straws, water bottles, and plastic bags. Some 700 species of marine animals have been reported—so far—to have eaten ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers said.

It’s killing and harming marine life. Turtles eat plastic bags mistaking them for jellyfish Seabirds are found with their stomachs full of plastic items Plastic debris can get lodged in coral and ...

"We want our customers to feel safe as they eat, and that's why we're putting their orders into bags." A turtle that swallowed plastic receives treatment. The World Economic Forum says there will ...