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    Study links ingested ocean plastics to hormone disruption in northern fulmars

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    Many are aware of the dire challenges with plastic waste polluting the ocean, but new research shows it may harm wildlife in ways not previously understood. In a new study just published in the journal Environmental Pollution, researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz and San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance found that plastic swallowed by northern fulmars—seabirds found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans—can leak chemicals that interfere with the birds' hormone systems.
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