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. The turtle writhes in agony, bleeding profusely.

Take a look at SodaStream's Holy Turtle below. About 18 billion pounds of plastic waste flow from coastal regions into oceans each year, according to National Geographic. Almost half of all the ...

On Tuesday, staff from the Boca Raton, Florida-based marine life center posted a sad image on Facebook of a deceased baby sea turtle next to a staggering 104 pieces of plastic, which the animal ...

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.

MUROTO, Kochi Prefecture--An endangered leatherback sea turtle found dead in a fishing net in local waters here in June had swallowed two plastic bags, an autopsy of its stomach contents showed.