Researchers in Louisiana have discovered traces of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the feathers of birds eaten by land animals. A team examined the feathers and digestive tract contents of ...

Plastic-Eating Mosquitoes Could Threaten Animal Food Chains. Published Sep 19, 2018 at 4:44 PM EDT. By ... This could mean that when the adult mosquitoes are eaten by animals that live on land, ...

The mosquitoes may exacerbate the problem of plastic contamination when they are eaten by animals living on land. Plastic pollution is ubiquitous in the environment, particularly in water.

It turns out that large sharks inadvertently carry out a sort of protection racket for animals at the bottom of the food chain. ... On land, the consequences are well-known.

Plastic pollution is harming invertebrates at the bottom of the food chain, including ... are being passed onto larger animals who feed ... in nearly 12% of UK land invertebrates ...

They say it "is the first demonstration that oil from the spill made it into the" food chain of land animals. The findings are published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

They say it "is the first demonstration that oil from the spill made it into the" food chain of land animals. The findings are published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

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