St. Paul’s Como Park Zoo announced some unhappy news Thursday morning that triggered a social media outpouring of ...

Researchers withdrew work allegedly documenting the first goblin shark in the Mediterranean Sea, after others pointed out suspiciously toy-like features. reading time 4 minutes A controversy in the ...

NEW YORK — Brooklyn man Wei Qiang Lin confessed to sending 850 turtles valued at $1.4 million to Hong Kong. The reptiles were packed into more than 220 boxes labeled “plastic animal toys” when they ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from the United States to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labeled “plastic animal ...

A Chinese national living in Brooklyn tried to smuggle $1.4 million worth of protected turtles wrapped in masking tape out of the United States — by passing them off as “plastic animal toys,” ...

At the bottom of the ocean, marine organisms have found a new home: our discarded plastics. Plastic items collected from trenches as deep as 3,200 m in the South China Sea host a diverse group of ...

Almost 1,800 marine animals ate or were caught up in plastic trash in the last decade, according to a new report that has compiled data on U.S. strandings. Among the hardest-hit creatures were sea ...

A new report examines how plastic waste affects marine wildlife. By Catrin Einhorn How severely the world’s plastic waste crisis is affecting marine wildlife is not fully understood, despite decades ...