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, ...

It was the face that launched a thousand plastic straw bans. The video begins with a close up of the turtle’s head, its dark green, pebbled skin out of place against the stark-white boat deck.

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 ...

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 ...

After a scientist found a plastic straw lodged in a sea turtle’s nose, sea turtles rose to fame in the environmental world and became the mascots of anti-plastic campaigns. But the issues facing sea ...