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 ...

Algae, plants and bacteria accumulate on ocean debris — emitting odors that cause turtles to confuse it for a tasty snack. Sea turtles already struggled to survive before plastic debris showed up in ...

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A lot of attention has been paid to how ingesting plastic impacts seabirds, fish and sea turtles in recent years. It’s logical to assume that nomming on bits of plastic is detrimental, but researchers ...

Spanish researchers have confirmed for the first time loggerhead sea turtles have a high concentration of plastic in their muscle tissue. The effects of plastic waste in the oceans are widely reported ...

Turtles can mistake black bin bags, fragments of fishing rope and carrier bags for sea grass, scientists say Green turtles are eating plastic which looks like their diet of sea grass, researchers say.