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Why do ocean animals eat plastic? Whales with stomachs full of plastic have turned up around the world. Here's what we know. By Natasha Daly. December 5, 2019 ...
Animals Eat Ocean Plastic Because it Smells Like Food. A new study sheds light on why so many seabirds, fish, whales, and other critters are gobbling up so much marine plastic debris.
In the 6.8-mile-deep Mariana Trench, the lowest point in any ocean, all of the specimens had plastic in their gut. Examples of fibers from trench amphipods (Lauren Brooks / Newcastle University) ...
A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.
The fact that sea animals and birds eat floating plastic has long puzzled biologists. Their best guess was that it looks like food. ... So they put plastic out to float around in the ocean.
Nearly 1,800 animals from 40 different species swallowed or became entangled in plastic between 2009 and 2018, the report, by ocean conservation group Oceana, found.
How Plastic In The Ocean Is Contaminating Your Seafood : The Salt Fish can absorb toxic chemicals that have been dumped into waterways, but they can also get them from eating plastic. And there's ...
Meanwhile, plastic ingestion on a large scale could impact nutrient flows within the ocean—"for example, feces with plastic in it may be more likely to float, thereby preventing the flow of ...
As the 9.5 billion tons of plastic the world has produced since the 1950s makes its way into the world’s rivers, lakes, and oceans, the animal consumption of such waste has become a big problem.
If we want to truly understand why animals are eating plastic in the ocean, we have to think about how animals find food.” The study could also open the door to new strategies that address the ocean’s ...
The law isn’t doing much better than science at catching up with the problem. Dr. Anja Brandon, Associate Director of U.S. Plastics Policy at Ocean Conservancy, has a PhD in environmental ...
In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone ...