fragments of fishing rope and carrier bags for sea grass, scientists say Green turtles are eating plastic which looks like their diet of sea grass, researchers say. Black bin bags, fragments of ...

small lightweight plastic," said Dr Hardesty. "We think that small turtles are less selective in what they eat than large adults who eat sea grass and crustaceans, the young turtles are out in the ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers 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 ...

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 ... and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion ...

Ailing or dead sea turtles regularly turn up on the beaches here ... but “not a whole lot is known about plastic ingestion by species in the Gulf of Mexico. Are our turtles eating plastic? Is it bad ...

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 ...

Stormwater run-off and other human activities contribute to eutrophication. 18. Sea turtles eat a lot of plastic. Plastic debris in the ocean poses a significant threat to sea turtles, with a 2013 ...

Narrator: You've probably seen this video. That's a plastic straw being pulled out of a sea turtle's nose. The video went viral in 2015 sparking a public outcry to "say no to plastic straws." ...