Seabirds Are Dumping Pollution-Laden Poop Back on Land

Seabirds Are Dumping Pollution-Laden Poop Back on Land

11/30/2015

"Chemicals we've poured into the ocean are coming back to sting us thanks to seabirds defecating in their onshore colonies.  New research is finding that these and other birds are bringing ocean pollution back onto land; the birds eat contaminated fish and poop out the chemicals." 

 

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