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 ... But most of the time, the harm is stealthier.

In seabirds, the evidence is clearer. Nanoplastics have been linked with organ damage in sable shearwaters and are known to ...

The list of freshwater and marine organisms that are harmed ... on animals at nearly all levels of biological organization,” Rochman says. “We know enough to act to reduce plastic pollution ...

entrap or harm animals; or be ingested and lead to starvation in marine animals due to malnutrition. With the equivalent of about 625,000 garbage trucks of plastic entering the ocean each year ...

There are many ways to reduce plastic, and although it’s hard, it’s not impossible — that is plainly an excuse. We have to do ...

Pesticides and microplastics could drive a West Coast native animal to extinction and further harm marine life, according to ...

As plastic pollution spreads through the ocean, one saddening side effect ... and avoiding them is a good way to reduce harm to wild animals.' Yet one of the biggest threats to wildlife comes ...

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 ...

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 ...