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Plastic pollution on beach

Remote Pacific island found buried under tonnes of plastic waste

15 May 2017

A tiny, otherwise pristine island is smothered by our blast from the past: vast amounts of decades-old plastic from around the world

Polar bear eating eggs

Polar bears shift from seals to bird eggs as Arctic ice melts

12 May 2017

The habitat overlap of polar bears and their main prey, ringed seals, is disappearing and the bears are instead getting closer to nesting birds

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