Researchers studying seabirds on Australia's Lord Howe Island found one bird with 894 pieces of plastic in its body. With stomachs packed with plastic waste, these birds are struggling to find room for actual food.
The plastic that floats in the oceans not only poses a threat to marine fauna with its effects such as the gill, lesions or obstructions of the digestive tract. It can also be accidentally ingested by adult birds and transferred to their young through the food they provide. Research revealed that even...