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

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.

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 ...

The only "green" our economy cares about is the dollar, and one day, we are going to wish we cared about the green on the ...

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

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.

“Sea turtles already face many pressures from human activity ... Loggerhead turtles are regularly reported to ingest plastic bags - made from polyethylene - who misidentify them as jellyfish and algae ...

THE green sea turtle that was found dead along the coast of Barangay Tugasan, Olango Island, Lapu-Lapu City earlier this month had no plastic waste in its syste ...

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.

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...