Our new study, published this week in the journal Science Advances, compared changes in 745 proteins found in seabirds with ...

FIFA World Cup souvenir. A McDonald’s McChicken container from 1996. Decades-old plastic packaging. Look inside the nests of ...

What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food ...

Researchers reconstructed the history of an unusual 30-year-old bird nest based on the expiration dates printed on plastic ...

Researchers found microscopic plastic particles in bird lungs, raising concerns about air pollution and human health.

New research shows that ingesting plastic can cause organ dysfunction and other health problems in birds.

Moreover, these zoonotic pathogens originating from plastic debris pose a health risk because birds can act as reservoirs for these diseases. It is imperative that we combat single-use plastic and ...

Coots' nests in Amsterdam are built using discarded plastic, providing a time capsule into the material's use over the past ...

Eurasian coots are round, black waterbirds with distinctive, chicken-like feet. Each year, these birds typically build new, bowl-shaped nests using leaves, rushes and reeds. But, while nesting in ...

Nest researcher Auke-Florian Hiemstra stumbled upon a bird nest that appeared to go back 30 years in time – filled with historical plastics. His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ ...

Australian researchers link plastic consumption to organ failure in seabird chicks and say more detailed studies about the ...

A UTA study reveals high levels of microplastics in bird lungs, highlighting concerns about the pollution humans breathe ...