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 ... than any other marine animal, researchers say ...

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, 14 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year, causing harm to marine life. Animals can get tangled up in plastic ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

The holes also let marine life escape, Birnbaum said, so turtles and other animals do not ... gathering very little plastic relative to the total amount of trash in the ocean.

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...