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Plastic waste washing up on beaches increasing threat to turtle populations – ABC News
Plastic pollution is significantly increasing sand temperatures on remote beaches — and it is feared the animals that call those beaches home are struggling to…
Research scientist Jennifer Lavers has spent weeks sifting through the world’s waste on two remote sets of islands and what she has found could have alarming consequences for wildlife.
Key points:
- New research has found plastic debris is increasing the temperature extremes of sand
- Sand temperature affects the gender of turtle hatchlings
- About 414 million pieces of plastic have been found on Australia’s Cocos Keeling Islands
In 2017, many were shocked to learn the shores of uninhabited Henderson Island…
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