These birds travel long distances between Australia's Lord Howe Island and Japan. The study, led by Alix de Jersey, a Ph.D ...

For years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s ...

Researchers travelled to Lord Howe Island to investigate the impact of plastic consumption on seabird chicks. Some birds were so full of plastic that scientists could "feel the crunching" of ...

Image by Alex Bond. Another study is investigating the impact of plastic pollution on wedge-tailed and flesh-footed shearwater birds on Lord Howe Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site off the coast of ...

Seabirds and other marine creatures are particularly vulnerable to plastic pollution. They mistake plastic debris floating in the ocean for food. Researchers recently coined the term ...

ALIX DE JERSEY: When birds are really highly plastic impacted, we can actually feel the plastic ... specifically the blood of 31 sable shearwater chicks caught on Lord Howe Island. They're about the ...

New research in the journal Science Advances shows that ingesting plastic can harm them in ... of 31 sable shearwater chicks caught on Lord Howe Island. They're about the size of a seagull.