The terrifying truth behind the death of seabirds

Midway Atoll, a remote Pacific island is showing us a horrifying scene after the death of seabirds.

The stench rises from the corpses of thousands of rotting birds, mingling with the smell of waste from everywhere in the world. That's what the reporter felt as soon as he arrived at Midway Atoll , a remote Pacific island.

The surface of the water is covered by colorful plastic pieces, corks and countless bottles of human being poured into the sea after use. Most of this scrap has drifted from the United States and China, and they come together to look like a giant plastic plank stretching across the Pacific Ocean.

On the sandy shore, too, if you try to sit down, put your hand in the hot sand, you can pull up a colorful array because the tiny plastic beads are mixing with sand and melting under high temperature. This is the sand that scientists call " new sand ", it is made up of plastic pieces after the impact process, they create tiny plastic particles mixed with sand and then become a part of this coast.

The seabirds here mistakenly think that the colorful plastic pieces are their food. Not only parents, but also their children eat this dangerous food when they bring "bait" to their children. Because they cannot digest the plastic, the birds always feel full, but gradually they fall into nutritional depletion and death.

Inside the dry skeleton of the seagulls lying on the island, many colorful plastic pieces, corks and lighters were discovered. This proves that plastic is their usual dish.

Colorful plastic pieces inside the body of a seagull.(Photo: CNN)

Plastic is the daily food of the birds here.(Photo: CNN)

Not only plastic pieces, lighters are also detected in the body of this bird.(Photo: CNN)

Plastic pieces cannot be digested.(Photo: CNN)

Plastic is the cause of the death of the birds here.(Photo: CNN)

They all have a common outcome.(Photo: CNN)

Scientists also claim that plastics are easy to absorb other contaminants , so it directly affects our food source. Seafood is one of the important food sources, but there is growing evidence that this food source is directly threatening human health. According to scientists, plastic is an extremely difficult material to decompose, most plastic items from ancient times still exist today. Every year people pour into the sea more than 8 million tons of waste plastic. Currently in the ocean there are more than 5,000 billion pieces of plastic and forecast by 2050, the amount of plastic in the ocean will be more than the current number of fish.

The smaller part of the plastic particles is called micro-plastic or nano-plastic , scientists sink deep into the ocean, suspended in water or clinging to plankton. Plankton are a food source of fish and other marine animals, while fish and marine animals are one of the main sources of human food. Swedish scientists have shown that larvae growing in plastic-contaminated waters tend to like to eat plastic and ignore natural food sources.

Through research and follow-up, scientists have found that in some marine animals there are very high levels of micro-plastics , especially in adult males. Regular eating of micro-plastic substances causes stunted marine animals, declining fertility rates and causing abnormal behavior in young animals.

Many scientific studies prove that plastic is harmful to humans , it is one of the substances that causes cancer. Therefore, American scientists are studying the harmful effects of plastic waste on marine life and plan to launch an investigation into the effects of plastic-contaminated organisms on human health.