As recently as the 1960s, perhaps later—within the life span of Tom Hanks, and within a few years of when the world was using its very first ATMs and contraceptive pills—nearly all of the planet’s sea ...

Dead sea turtles have been discovered with a vast array of plastic waste inside their bellies, with one unlucky reptile having swallowed a rubber witch's finger. Of a total of 135 loggerhead turtles ...

Thousands to millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean annually, but where they end up is poorly understood. Scientists have been working to assemble the pieces of the puzzle for years, including ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

Plastic is found in almost every sea turtle hatchling that washes ashore. A sea turtle hatchling that washed ashore on a Florida beach and later died had more than 100 pieces of tiny plastic in its ...

Late last year an unprecedented number of green sea turtles, or honu, washed up on New Zealand's coastline. Many were nursed back to health and released back into the wild - and some were returned ...

Nearly 1,300 marine species, including every family of seabirds and marine mammals, ingest hard and soft plastics, rubber, and fishing debris. This tragic habit can kill many of these marine animals ...

Xia (Alice) Zhu receives funding from the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. Chelsea Rochman receives funding from NSERC, ECCC, DFO. Matthew Mazloff receives funding from NASA, NOAA, NSF, UCSD. Memorial ...