It was August 10, 2015, and marine conservation biologist Christine Figgener was collecting data for her Ph.D. a few miles off the coast of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. She and a colleague, Nathan Robinson ...

Bay Area environmentalists are declaring war on the lowly plastic straw. Americans use an incredible 500 million plastic straws every day. Even though they are small, straws can create serious ...

“BACK TO PLASTIC!” President Trump posted. On Feb. 10, Executive Order 14208 repealed the federal use of paper straws mandated by the prior administration, citing expense, ineffectiveness and even ...

The heartbreaking moment a turtle choked on a piece of plastic was captured by divers off the coast of Hawaii, highlighting the scale of pollution in our oceans. A group of 100 individuals strapped ...

If watching this excruciating 8-minute video of the removal of a plastic drinking straw from the nostril of an innocent sea turtle doesn’t make you want to pick up every piece of trash you see ...

Every day, Americans use more than 500 million plastic straws. And if asked, many of them would likely say the straw was an afterthought, a tool they don't necessarily need with every drink. Locally, ...

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If this doesn’t make you rethink accepting that plastic straw the waitress offers you next time you’re at a café, nothing will. A turtle researcher recently posted a video on YouTube of her colleague ...

A 10-year-old in Alabama wants to save the turtles by eliminating drinking straws. According to the Associated Press, Janice Bailey wants to protect sea turtles by cutting down on the use of drinking ...

Bloody and in pain, when a plastic straw became lodged in the nostril of a turtle, a video showing its removal shook the world – sparking a movement to rid the world of plastic straws. In 2015, PhD ...