One look at this turtle and you will never litter again. Turtle researcher Nathan Robinson and his colleague, Chris Figgener, were looking for mating sea turtles off the coast of Costa Rica when they ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A marine biologist whose shocking video of a sea turtle having a plastic straw removed from its nostril sparked a global movement to have the single use plastic items banned is grabbing worldwide ...

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, ...

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 ...

A growing number of restaurants and pubs are listening to environmental campaigners and taking a stand against plastic straws When the boss of UK pub chain Oakman Inns, Peter Borg-Neal, was shown a ...

The YouTube video has had more than 16 million views but comes with a parental guidance warning: a male sea turtle, lying on the floor of a boat, struggles as a 12cm plastic straw is dislodged from ...

“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 On Feb. 10, Executive Order 14208 repealed the federal use of paper straws mandated by the prior administration, citing expense, ineffectiveness and even ...