Plastic-eating seabird chicks show signs of organ failure and cognitive decline

Mongabay
Apr 16, 2025, 10:29 am54 pts
For years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s, at the Tasmanian School of Medicine. But a visit to a seabird colony five years ago, where he saw many dead sable shearwater (Ardenna carneipes) chicks washed up ashore with their…

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