Abandoned fishing lines and nets can lacerate their flippers or wrap around their neck; the entanglements can prevent the turtles from surfacing for oxygen and drown them. Plastic bags ...

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...

Straws and plastic forks get sucked up turtles’ noses. Hungry leatherbacks mistake plastic bags for jellyfish. New research suggests that nine million hawksbills were slaughtered in the past 150 ...

“Finally, with this necessary update to the bag ban, plastic grocery bags will no longer be a threat to sea turtles, birds, ...

It’s killing and harming marine life. Turtles eat plastic bags mistaking them for jellyfish Seabirds are found with their stomachs full of plastic items Plastic debris can get lodged in coral and ...

An injured leatherback sea turtle, weighing approximately 300 kg and measuring two meters long, has been rescued on Israel's Mediterranean coast, the country's Nature and Parks Authority (NPA) said ...

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...