The ocean is awash with plastic—more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals get tangled in plastics or swallow them, the chemicals released by the stuff ...

A small piece of plastic — no larger than a baseball — can be enough to kill an adult Florida manatee, according to new ...

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 ...

KWS warden and fishermen carrying a group of two days old turtles at the Nyali beach during the World sea turtles day in Mombasa county. [File, Standard] At least 28 sea turtles die every month along ...