Christine Figgener poses with a turtle on a mission to rescue females stuck in a nearby river in Ostional, Costa Rica in 2011. Christine Figgener poses with a turtle on a mission to rescue females ...

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 ...

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 On Feb. 10, Executive Order 14208 repealed the federal use of paper straws mandated by the prior administration, citing expense, ineffectiveness and even ...

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 ...

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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, ...

When Nathan J. Robinson first discovered what was causing an Olive Ridley sea turtle to have problems breathing he said he felt “exasperated.” “It took me a while to take in that it was a straw,” ...

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 ...