Tag: Plastic pollution
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Tonnes of fishing gear and plastic are washing up on Seychelles beaches. We tracked where it was coming from
Alex Albinski, University of Oxford and Noam Vogt-Vincent, University of Oxford Vast quantities of plastic and fishing gear are washing up along the shores of the Seychelles, destroying fragile ecosystems and causing significant economic problems. Aldabra Atoll, a Unesco world heritage site in this archipelago nation of 115 islands, is estimated to have accumulated more…
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Plastic pollution on the world’s coral reefs -Nature
A new paper says that both shallow and deep-water coral reefs, even in remote areas, are impacted by plastic. Most of the larger items are from fishing “ghost gear” such as nets. Food wrappers and plastic bottles were also common. Plastic is an “emerging threat” to reefs which have already been stressed by the impacts…