One of the real and dangerous consequences of plastic waste making its way into ocean is the increasing threat it poses to marine life. Sea turtles are one example of a creature that regularly ...

Plastic pollution creates an 'evolutionary trap' for young sea turtles, new research shows. After hatching on beaches, sea turtles travel on currents and spend their early years in the open ocean.

Although this is something scientists are yet to explore for young turtles, the fact that they are encountering such high concentrations of plastic so early in life is cause for concern.

This "olfactory trap" might help explain why sea turtles are prone to eating and getting entangled in plastic, say US researchers. Plastic debris is rapidly accumulating in the oceans.

Small juvenile sea turtles from the Pacific and Indian Oceans have a very high occurrence of ingested plastic, a new study shows. The life cycle of marine turtles might "trap" juvenile turtles in ...

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission voted to review potential regulations that would require bycatch reduction devices ...

Eating all that plastic is often fatal. Scientists have long thought that sea turtles eat plastic because it looks like their prey —plastic bags, for instance, resemble jellyfish.

We all see plastic bags, water bottles and trash littering our roads and waterways. But, according to researchers, what we see barely scratches the surface of what's lurking in the deep.

Even if plastic pollution stopped tomorrow, turtles would be dealing with the repercussions for centuries—at least.

New research estimates that approximately 60 tonnes of plastic debris discarded in the ocean reside within female green turtles at any given time.

For Animals, Plastic Is Turning the Ocean Into a Minefield From getting stuck in nets to eating plastic that they think is food, creatures worldwide are dying from material we made.

Plastic pollution creates an “evolutionary trap” for young sea turtles, according to a new study. The research found plastic inside small juvenile turtles along both the east (Pacific) and ...