The seal was entangled in a pink gill net and nylon rope that caused deep cuts to its flippers when it tried to swim. It was taken to Mystic Aquarium for treatment. A grey seal was found on Block ...

A stag has died after becoming tangled in a mass of plastic strapping. The animal was found with the plastic wrapped around its mouth and antlers by a local gamekeeper on the west coast of Jura on the ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...