Inside the slight skeleton of one albatross, we found bottle tops and a cigarette lighter amongst seemingly endless tiny shards of plastic. It's as if plastic actually was the bird's diet.

However, I was equally shocked to come across pellets that albatross chicks had regurgitated just before they fledge and to find in amongst it evidence of plastic ingestion. The chicks get the ...

Raw scenes like this, which lay bare the toll of plastic on wildlife, have become familiar: The dead albatross, its stomach bursting with refuse. The turtle stuck in a six-pack ring, its shell ...

Pillière said the death of a chick from ingesting plastic in 2023 had prompted her to drastically reduce her household’s plastic use. The royal albatross has also crept into her work as a ...

"But the first thing I see when I get off the plane is plastic pollution on beaches and on the reefs and inside the wildlife itself," he said. McCauley studied the albatross colonies that nest on ...

An albatross picks its way across a beach strewn with plastic waste, pecking at a faded bottle cap it has mistaken for food. Packaging, from bags to bottles, makes up a huge proportion of the ...