Pollution

Face masks are increasingly being washed up on British beaches.

PPE litter washing up on British beaches due to coronavirus pandemic

An adder on burnt heathland Elstead Common. © Surrey Wildlife Trust

The Wildlife Trusts report devastation as visitors flock to reserves

Harbour porpoise ready for postmortem at ZSL (c) CSIP-ZSL

Young porpoises in the UK are ingesting toxic milk

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11 tonnes of litter removed from British beaches

UK shoppers buy a whopping 54 of these 'bags for life' a year on average. © Martin Poole/Getty

‘Bags for life’ exacerbating the plastic problem

Tower Bridge, City Hall and the Shard. © Shomos Uddin/Getty

Majority of litter in the River Thames is single-use

© Surfers Against Sewage

36,000kg of plastic waste picked by volunteers

Workers help remove oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a laughing gull at the Mississippi Wildlife Response Center in Gulfport, Mississippi, on West Ship Island in Mississippi on Saturday, July 3, 2010. (James Edward Bates/Biloxi Sun-Herald/MCT)
Oil on a bird's feathers leads to flightlessness © James Edward Bates / Biloxi Sun-Herald / MCT / Getty Images

Why is oil so bad for birds’ feathers?

Marine pollution, mainly made up of plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in Hinnavaru Harbour, Maldives, Indian Ocean.

Hundreds of marine Asian species have been hitching a ride on rafts of marine debris

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New report examines marine plastics in seabirds