“During their long journey to Ogasawara Islands, the green turtles are likely to ingest and accumulate plastic distributed ...

Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, ...

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 ...

A beach on a remote island, and home to nesting turtles, is annually overwhelmed by tonnes of plastic garbage. Christmas ...

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 ...

All over the world, sea turtles are swallowing bits of plastic floating in the ocean, mistaking them for tasty jellyfish, or just unable to avoid the debris that surrounds them. Now, a new study out ...

A matured Loggerhead Sea turtle released by staff from Local conservation makes its way back into the ocean, in Watamu on May 23, 2025. [AFP] A small charity on Kenya’s coast has become vital to ...

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 ...

The use of cameras by wildlife authorities is one of the best ways to document wildlife sightings, particularly of rarely ...

Off the coast of Lebanon, a routine sail in November turned into a rescue when a floating object in the Mediterranean revealed a baby turtle trapped by plastic pollution. What followed was a swift ...

This is the heartbreaking moment a sea turtle tried to eat a piece of plastic floating around an aquarium. The endangered green sea turtle at Sea Life Bangkok spotted the transparent piece of trash ...