How far do the plastics that you throw out travel? Researchers studying green sea turtles around the Ogasawara Islands of Japan integrated genetic, isotopic, and plastic analyses and estimated that the ingested plastics originated from areas beyond the turtles' migratory range, indicating the influence of transboundary marine pollution.

What do leatherbacks hear? New research published in Nature (in press) investigated their response to impulsive sounds, specifically those generated from seismic surveys, and found that there was a significant effect on their swimming path, dive duration, and probability of foraging from the sound intensity coinciding with the emitted impulsive sound.

The Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) agreement went into effect on January 17th - so what happens next? According to the UN, apart from universal participation the key to making the BBNJ work will be implementation, including acting against those who break the rules.