Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

This story is part of Planet or Plastic ... pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril. The turtle writhes in agony, bleeding profusely.

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...