Sea turtles are the poster animal for plastics pollution in the ocean. There is a reason why they may be so susceptible to becoming caught up in plastic trash. In a new sea turtle behavior study, ...

The tumors are caused by a herpes virus and usually afflict young green sea turtles living in near shore pollution hotspots. Grisly tumors that have been afflicting young green sea turtles off Florida ...

Wallace Nichols, a marine biologist who has been studying sea turtles and plastic pollution in the oceans for nearly 25 years, is worried. “It used to be that when we found a rare piece of plastic on ...