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 ...

Google Earth provides detailed satellite mapping, but it's not uncovering ancient sea monsters anytime soon. So, while the idea of a real Leviathan might be thrilling, this viral sensation is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That's a plastic straw being pulled out of a sea turtle's nose ... George Leonard is the chief scientist for the Ocean Conservancy. George Leonard: The data from our 2017 international coastal ...