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 ... unrelenting hunger. Some animals now live in a ...

Most of this plastic is released into the sea from Turkey and Spain, followed by Italy, Egypt and France, with tourists visiting the region increasing marine litter by 40 per cent each summer. Large ...

Nurdles are tiny pellets - around 1-5mm long - used to make plastic products. They are not toxic, but animals that eat them ... water during last week's North Sea crash. Chief Coastguard Paddy ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

Many of the sea creatures ... tonnes of plastic into the sea every year”. It’s killing and harming marine life. Turtles eat plastic bags mistaking them for jellyfish Seabirds are found with their ...

Redondo Beach — The Trump administration’s targeting of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will jeopardize efforts to save sea lions, dolphins, sea birds and other wildlife stricken ...

We take an elevator down to a parking garage and walk by Lamborghinis to our destination: a labyrinth of pipes and plastic ... these animals. But after months of reporting on sea turtles in ...

A surge of sick sea lions are washing up along the California ... Unfortunately, many animals are dying on the beach before we have a chance to rescue them. This indicates a high level of exposure ...

environmentalists have become concerned that continued outbreaks of the algae could keep killing the animals; in 2023, an uptick of domoic acid in California led to at least 1,000 sea lions dying ...

Sunflower sea stars ... Reducing plastic usage and recycling plastic can also go a long way to helping not only marine life ...

It is feared millions of them entered the sea - some individually or moulded together - when the ships caught fire. "Obviously, we don't want plastic pollution on the beach, but the nurdles can be ...

H5 in sea lions in the area where 4 dead specimens were found. A fence was to be placed to keep people from approaching the animals, while an operation was deployed to prevent pedestrian traffic ...