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

Plastic ingestion and entanglement are major issues for sea life. The ocean is awash with plastic—more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals get ...

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 ...

I used to think of ocean plastic as a slow, vague threat—something that chokes turtles and whales only after years of exposure. The latest science is far more blunt: for many marine animals, it takes ...