Plastic Pollution

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A dead, 1-2 month old sea turtle laying next to 104 pieces of small plastic pulled from its digestive tract.

Depressing Image Shows Dead Baby Sea Turtle Found with 104 Pieces of Plastic in Its Belly

By Kimberly Hickok published

Sea turtles aren't made to eat plastic.

Turtles
Lead author Jennifer Lavers looks out at the plastic debris covering a Cocos (Keeling) Island beach.

Scientists Went to One of the World's Most Remote Island Atolls. They Found 414 Million Pieces of Plastic

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

Researchers dug holes in the sand. The holes were filled with plastic.

Planet Earth
The submersible reaches the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.

Explorer Reaches Bottom of the Mariana Trench, Breaks Record for Deepest Dive Ever

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

It was chilly; it was quiet; and "it was so very peaceful"

Planet Earth
Stranded sperm whale

Another Dead Whale Full of Plastic. This Time, in Italy.

By Kimberly Hickok published

The whale's cause of death is still under investigation, but a stomach full of plastic isn't a healthy thing.

Whales
Darrell Blatchley, director of D'Bone Collector Museum Inc., pulls plastic waste from the stomach of a Cuvier's beaked whale that washed ashore in Compostela Valley, in the Philippines.

Dead Whale Washes Ashore with Shocking 88 lbs. of Plastic in Its Stomach

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

His stomach "had the most plastic we have ever seen in a whale"

Whales
A harbor seal investigates a member of the golf ball recovery team.

Teen Diver Finds Huge Cache of Plastic Pollution — Thousands of Golf Balls Off California Coast

By Matthew Savoca published

With a marine scientist, the teen reveals how much golf courses are polluting nearby waters.

Planet Earth
This dead sperm whale was found washed up on a beach in southern Indonesia on Nov. 19, its stomach full of nearly 13 pounds (6 kilograms) of plastic trash.

Found, Inside Dead Sperm Whale: 100 Plastic Cups, 4 Plastic Bottles, 25 Plastic Bags, 2 Flip-Flops

By Kimberly Hickok published

A dead sperm whale had more than 100 plastic cups, plastic bags, flip flops and other pieces of plastic in its stomach when it was found rotting on a beach in Indonesia.

Whales
Plastic pollution has reached some of the ocean's top predators South American Fur Seals (<em>Arctocephalus australis</em>).

Invisible Stew of Plastic Pollution Found in Fur Seal Poop

By Stephanie Pappas published

First humans, now seals: Microplastics are in everyone's digestive tract.

Seals
Ocean Cleanup System 001

A Huge Noodle Could Leave the Ocean Cleaner — If It Works

By Kimberly Hickok published

Is the goal of the Ocean Cleanup as admirable as it sounds?

Rivers & Oceans
plastics kailua beach

Your Plastic Bags Are Releasing Greenhouse Gases

By Leslie Nemo published

Plastics aren't just messing up the environment by clogging the oceans and piling up in landfills.

Climate Change
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