Caitlin Jandegian, a researcher at the Bond Life Science Center at the University of Missouri in Columbia, checks on some of the painted turtle embryos kept in an incubator on Friday, June 27, 2014.

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 ...

The ocean is awash with plastic—more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals get tangled in plastics or swallow them, the chemicals released by the stuff ...

Ingesting just six pieces of rubber—each smaller than a pea—can all but seal a seabird’s fate, leaving it with a 90 percent chance of death. A 300-pound adult green sea turtle has about a 50 percent ...

When rescuers found a young green sea turtle on the shores of North Carolina's Outer Banks this summer, they didn't know the full scope of its struggle. As reported by The Coastland Times, the small ...