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 ...

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.

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 ...

In 2015, Texas A&M marine biology graduate student Christine Figgener was in a boat off the coast of Costa Rica looking for sea turtles. When the research team pulled one in to study, they noticed ...