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Marine pollution by plastics represents a “serious threat” to seabirds in the Canary Islands

February 19, 2019 Sea Birds 1,396 Views

83% of the gray shearwater chickens analyzed in the Canary Islands in recent studies by Canarian scientists had plastic inside. A study finds microplastics in all corpses of whales, seals and dolphins analyzed.  

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