The oceans are full of plastic, but why do seabirds eat it?
- Written by Matthew Savoca, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Davis
Imagine that you are constantly eating, but slowly starving to death. Hundreds of species of marine mammals, fish, birds, and sea turtles face this risk every day when they mistake plastic debris for food.
Plastic debris can be found in oceans around the world. Scientists have estimated that there are over five trillion pieces of plastic weighing...
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