Chris Jordan has published a series of images identified as dead albatross on Midway Atoll whose bodies are filled with bits of plastic they ingested.
via Boing Boing http://tiny.cc/vhpqUMidway Island is an anemic little line of sand and coral reefs, way out in the middle of the Pacific. Now, I don't know Mr. Jordan personally, and haven't fact-checked the story behind the photos -- but presuming it's all as presented, this really is a horrifying set of images.
Birds that live as far away from civilization as you can imagine, their innards packed with petroleum flotsam?
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Horrible.
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