Green turtles are more likely to swallow plastic that resembles their natural diet of sea grass, new research suggests. The turtles strongly favour narrow lengths of plastic in natural colours like ...

For years, marine biologists have called for a ban on plastics, having witnessed firsthand the devastating impact on marine life. However, their pleas largely fell on deaf ears, given how cheap ...

This is the heartbreaking moment a sea turtle tried to eat a piece of plastic floating around an aquarium. The endangered green sea turtle at Sea Life Bangkok spotted the transparent piece of trash ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...