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 ... roam farther in search of real food, only to drag ...

Levianna sea monster has taken the internet by storm sparking debates over whether it’s based on real deep-sea sightings ... in the darkest parts of the ocean. [levianna sea monster] [deep ...

Sea turtles gravitate toward waste plastics in the ocean because it smells like food to them. That’s the message from scientists in a new research paper revealing a possible reason why plastic ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. How close can you really get to two monster squid fighting? Very close, it turns out. This month National Geographic ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

More than five trillion pieces of plastic are already in the oceans, and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish ... contaminants in the ocean. This has a real impact on our ...