A dead baby bird—found with 778 pieces of plastic in its stomach—has shattered a grim 15-year record. Reading time 3 minutes Squeaky stuffed animals are endearing. But when the animal is a real baby ...

Balloons ingested by seabirds are more deadly to them than hard plastics, a study released last week concluded. Studying the cause of death of more than 1,700 seabirds, researchers from the Institute ...

“While these birds can look healthy on the outside, they’re not doing well on the inside.” “While these birds can look healthy on the outside, they’re not doing well on the inside,” Dr. Alex Bond, who ...

Seabirds mistakenly eat plastic debris in the ocean not just because it looks like food, but because it smells like it. When mealtime comes around, many species of ocean-faring birds, including ...

Harrowing photographs of seabirds with plastic in their mouths, splashed across newspapers and magazines, have raised public awareness over plastic pollution’s squirrelly tendency to harm sea life. In ...

That plastic pollution is harmful to marine life, including seabirds, is well known, but recent research finds that the impacts may be “grossly underestimated” and that plastics can affect multiple ...

Seabirds that ingest any amount of plastic have significant health troubles, a new study has found. Most research on the impacts of plastic on marine life has been focused on mortality; this is one of ...