Maciel writes that, while flimsy paper straws may not make drinkers happy, there are many alternatives to returning to ...

Narrator: You've probably seen this video. That's a plastic straw being pulled out of a sea turtle's nose. The video went viral in 2015 sparking a public outcry to "say no to plastic straws." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.