FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. — Plastic makes up a good chunk of pollution on land and in the oceans. Scientists know this, but what they didn’t have scientific proof for is the sheer amount of plastic in ...

Researchers probing the bellies of marine sea turtles from two oceans found an overwhelming amount of plastic in the reptiles’ stomachs. Performing autopsies on stranded and bycaught specimens of five ...

Although sea turtles have been chomping down on plastic bags for years, scientists didn’t know why – until now. Plastic bags may smell like a tasty treat because of the bacteria and algae that ...

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New research has provided fresh insight into why sea turtles find discarded pieces of plastic so appetizing—it not only looks like food, but smells like it too. A paper published in Current Biology ...

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 ...

To a sea turtle, plastic debris might smell like dinner. As the plastic detritus of modern human life washes into oceans, marine creatures of all kinds interact with and sometimes eat it (SN: 11/13/19 ...

We know there is a lot of plastic in the ocean, and that turtles (and other endangered species) are eating it. It is not uncommon to find stranded dead turtles with guts full of plastic. But we ...

The push against single-use plastic has some emotive mascots, including the iconic turtle with a straw in its nose. The working hypothesis about why turtles are so attracted to plastic is that plastic ...

Researchers in Australia examined the digestive tracts of 246 dead sea turtles collected from along the coast of the state of Queensland and counted up to 329 pieces of plastic. Younger turtles were ...

Sea turtles around the world are threatened by marine plastic debris, mostly through ingestion and entanglement. Now, researchers have new evidence to explain why all that plastic is so dangerous for ...