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A newly discovered disease is sickening seabirds, and it’s not caused by a virus or bacteria—it’s caused by ingesting the increasingly ubiquitous bits of plastics contaminating land, air, and sea. That’s the conclusion of a recently published study in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, with researchers calling the “novel, plastic-induced fibrotic disease” plasticosis. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams According to […]
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