Leaders from around the world have collected in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally hanging a world treaty to reduce the earth’s rising standard of plastic pollution.  Negotiations started over two many years back, when 167 member nations around the world from the United

Uncooked scenes such as this, which lay bare the toll of plastic on wildlife, are becoming acquainted: The dead albatross, its tummy bursting with refuse. The turtle trapped in a 6-pack ring, its shell warped from years of straining towards the hard plastic. The seal snared inside a discarded fishin

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But more often than not, the hurt is stealthier. Flesh-footed shearwaters, large, sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, try to eat more plastic being a proportion of their entire body mass than any other marine animal, researchers say: In one large po

But most of the time, the damage is stealthier. Flesh-footed shearwaters, large, sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, try to eat a lot more plastic for a proportion in their physique mass than any other maritime animal, scientists say: In a single la