Sea turtle biologist and New York University Professor Genia Naro-Maciel writes that, while flimsy paper straws may not make ...

The Holy Turtle was designed to capture trash floating ... "We could be the dinosaurs of this generation." Plastic straws should be illegal, Birnbaum said. He added that people with disabilities ...

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 ... and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion ...

Sea turtles gravitate toward waste plastics in the ocean because it smells like food to them. That’s the message from scientists in a new research paper revealing a possible reason why plastic ...

A defining moment came in 2015 when marine biologist Christine Figgener uploaded footage of a sea turtle suffering as a 4-inch plastic straw was painstakingly removed from its bloodied nostril.

In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtle's nose sparked outrage worldwide and countries and cities started banning them, starting with the Pacific Island nation ...

“People get really fired up about straws.” According to The Journal, the crusade against plastic began a decade ago when a viral video showed a sea turtle with a straw stuck in its nos ...