New research from Padre Island National Seashore highlights the toll that ingesting plastic is taking on green sea turtles. Padre Island National ... by species in the Gulf of Mexico. Are our turtles ...

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 ... and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion ...

For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags. Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to ...

Scientists recently made a concerning discovery in the reproductive systems of male sea turtles: high concentrations of microplastics. Now, researchers worry these tiny plastic particles could ...

Endangered wildlife like Hawaiian monk seals and Pacific loggerhead sea turtles are among nearly 700 species that eat and get caught in plastic litter. It's time to get at the root of this ocean ...

While sea turtle population numbers seem to be steadying as a whole, experts say this does not necessarily mean they have ...