Plastic straws are one of the top contributors of plastic pollution in the oceans. With just 9% of straws capable of being ...

Thousands to millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean annually, but where they end up is poorly understood.

turtles, and birds—are killed each year due to plastic debris in the ocean. These animals can become entangled in meshes, leading to suffocation, starvation, injury, and death. Ghost nets also ...

Slow and steady wins the race. It’s a sentiment that has shadowed turtles for years, and perhaps, for good reason. Turtles ...

For millions of years, sea turtles swam freely through the vast oceans of the world but now, in the modern world, they face a ...

A small Kenyan NGO is on a mission to save thousands of turtles from poachers, fishermen’s nets and environmental hazards, ...

A massive ocean survey finds plastic in every layer of the North Atlantic, revealing how deeply it has invaded marine ecosystems.

Big animals of the ocean go about their days mostly hidden from view. Scientists know these marine megafauna—such as whales, ...

A crowd of spectators gathered on Governors Beach Monday morning to witness and celebrate two green sea turtles being released into the sea, in celebration of World Sea Turtle Day. From a distance, ...

The Ocean Cleanup, the international non-profit with the mission to rid the world’s oceans of plastic, has announced, at the ...

but to understand just how much ocean plastic pollution is stored in ocean life, we used sea turtles as a case study. To estimate how much plastic resides within sea turtles, we built a model ...