For Animals, Plastic Is Turning the Ocean Into a Minefield
From getting stuck in nets to eating plastic that they think is food, creatures worldwide are dying from material we made.
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Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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