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A bowl of traditional shark fin soup.
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Shark Fin Soup

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A volunteer puts together the bleached coral reef by stacking pieces of Styrofoam onto wire.
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Building the Bleached Reef

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A plastic bottle jellyfish sculpture.
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Plastic Jellyfish

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After collecting, cleaning and sorting the plastic, the community came back together to construct the whale ribcage.
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Building the Whale Ribcage

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A sea star crawling on an orange finger sponge in Boston Harbor.
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Recovered Boston Harbor Underwater

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Half a century after nuclear testing blasted the reefs of Bikini Atoll, corals have recovered.
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Bikini Atoll Coral

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Various perspectives of a paper nautilus shell.
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Nautilus Shell

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Artist Chris Jordan, who took these photos, is making a documentary about Laysan albatrosses on Midway Atoll and their plastic problem. Watch the trailer.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 10

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Laysan albatross chicks are fed and raised by their parents for 180 days, until they are almost fully grown. Some older “chicks” are as large as their parents!
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 8

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The plastic includes big pieces, such as bottle caps and cigarette lighters, as well as plastic confetti, indiscernible to the human eye.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 6

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Laysan albatrosses will fly hundreds of miles to catch food to feed for their chicks. Or, rather, what looks like food: sometimes they catch floating plastic instead.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 5

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One study found that 97.5% of chicks had plastic in their stomachs, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 3

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