Another #AdriftLab #seabird paper has been featured in #AudubonMagazine (this important #research from #Australia will now reach an even broader audience in the USA) 🥳 - congrats to Hayley (our student) and team 👏

“a word can only do so much. Ultimately, reducing the world’s reliance on #plastic is the preventive treatment for #plasticosis”

#LordHoweIsland #PlasticPollution #SublethalEffects #PlasticIngestion @SeabirdSentinel @TheLabAndField https://www.audubon.org/news/plastic-pollution-so-pervasive-its-causing-new-disease-seabirds

✨New #AdriftLab paper✨ “Pumice ingestion in #seabirds: interannual variation, and relationships with chick growth and plastic ingestion” 🐦🌋 #OpenAccess (free to download) HERE ➡️ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-023-04203-6

We analysed the amount of ingested #pumice (on LEFT in photo) from 739 Flesh-footed & 173 Wedge-tailed #Shearwaters from #LordHoweIsland during 2011-2022 #LongTermMonitoring

Pumice mass did not vary over time, except for one higher year for each species (2016 for FFSH & 2014 for WTSH), and there was no effect of pumice mass on chick body size at fledgling.

Our results are consistent with the coexistence over geological time of seabirds and floating pumice & provides further evidence that ingested pumice does not cause #Plasticosis or other harm like #IngestedPlastic does
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389422019112

Big thanks to Gabbi for providing the photo used in Figure 1 and to @nhm_london and Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation for their endless support!! 🙏 @SeabirdSentinel @TheLabAndField

#AdriftLab’s new paper describing the disease #Plasticosis - fibrosis as a result of exposure to #IngestedPlastics - is ranked 🥇NUMBER ONE🥇 by #Altmetric for the Journal of Hazardous Materials 🥳 #seabirds #microplastics #SublethalEffects #wildlife #OceanHealth #sentinel @SeabirdSentinel @TheLabAndField

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-03-10-exposure-pollution-plasticosis-disease-ingestion-plastic-particles.html Chronic exposure to environmental pollution linked to plasticosis, a disease caused by ingestion of plastic particles. #plastic #plasticosis #environmental #toxins #detox

@AdriftLab identified a new fibrotic disease called #plasticosis in #seabirds, a group well known for consuming #plastic.
Nearly every organism — including humans — is being impacted by plastic in some way https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/plastic-consumption-is-killing-this-seabird-and-likely-other-species-too/

There's no avoiding it

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-03-10-exposure-pollution-plasticosis-disease-ingestion-plastic-particles.html

#plasticosis #environment #microplastics #badpollution

The latest Seabird Weekly! #SeabirderSaturday https://paper.li/sjurdur/1439727010?edition_id=0ae303e0-c006-11ed-9537-fa163e6ccaff
#plasticpollution #plasticosis

RT @impakterdotcom
Seabirds have contracted a new type of #plastic-induced fibrotic disease, coined #plasticosis.

This begins to unearth the scale of the impact of our plastic-consumption, suggesting that animals & humans alike may not be immune to the #health-consequences.
https://buff.ly/3ZSD4VJ

#Seabirds Are Suffering From #Plasticosis, A New #Plastic-Induced Disease

:blink: 😿

https://www.iflscience.com/seabirds-are-suffering-from-plasticosis-a-new-plastic-induced-disease-67830

La pollution plastique a causé une nouvelle maladie chez ces oiseaux, la « plasticosis » - Numerama https://www.numerama.com/sciences/1293490-la-pollution-plastique-a-cause-une-nouvelle-maladie-chez-ces-oiseaux.html #environnement #pollution #plastique #maladie #oiseau #plasticosis #1st_revue #0_archivebox #2nd_frm

#Plasticosis: A new #disease caused by #plastic that is affecting #seabirds

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-plasticosis-disease-plastic-affecting-seabirds.html

‘Plasticosis’: Characterising macro- and microplastic-associated fibrosis in seabird tissues https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389423003722

#Pollution #PlasticPollution #Plasticosis #OpenAccess

"'Plasticosis': a new disease caused by plastic that is affecting seabirds" https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/march/plasticosis-new-disease-caused-by-plastic-affecting-seabirds.html

“We have met the enemy and he is us." — Pogo

#Pollution #PlasticPollution #Anthropocene #Plasticosis

#Plasticosis : une nouvelle maladie découverte chez les oiseaux, provoquée par la pollution plastique.

Appelée "plasticosis", elle est causée par l'ingestion de petits morceaux de plastique.

Ces particules provoquent une inflammation du tube digestif.

https://www.tf1info.fr/environnement-ecologie/plasticosis-une-nouvelle-maladie-decouverte-chez-les-oiseaux-provoquee-par-la-pollution-plastique-2249871.html

#Pollution #Plastiques #Oiseaux #FauneSauvage

🇬🇧 "A new #disease caused solely by #plastics has been discovered in #seabirds.
The birds identified as having the disease, named plasticosis, have scarred digestive tracts from ingesting waste, scientists at the Natural History Museum in London say."

🇵🇹 "Uma nova #doença causada exclusivamente por #plásticos foi descoberta em #aves marinhas.
As aves identificadas como portadoras da doença, chamada #plasticose, têm tratos digestivos danificados pela ingestão de resíduos, dizem cientistas do Museu de História Natural de Londres."

🇫🇷 "Une nouvelle #maladie causée uniquement par les #plastiques a été découverte chez les #oiseaux marins.
Les oiseaux identifiés comme atteints de la maladie, appelée plasticose, ont des cicatrices du tube digestif à cause de l'ingestion de déchets, selon des scientifiques du Natural History Museum du Londres."

🇪🇦 "Se ha descubierto una nueva #enfermedad causada únicamente por plásticos en aves #marinas.
Las aves identificadas con la enfermedad, llamada #plasticosis, tienen tractos digestivos cicatrizados por la ingestión de desechos, dicen los científicos del Museo de Historia Natural de Londres."

In: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/03/plasticosis-new-disease-caused-by-plastics-discovered-in-seabirds?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

#AdriftLab science on the front page of The Guardian UK - incredible work Hayley and team 🎉 #seabirds #microplastics #SublethalEffects #Plasticosis @AdriftLab https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/03/plasticosis-new-disease-caused-by-plastics-discovered-in-seabirds

✨NEW PAPER✨Imagine you’ve got a piece of plastic stuck in your stomach - stabbing, poking, and prodding constantly. Besides being incredibly uncomfortable, what would that do to your delicate internal tissues?
One of our #AdriftLab Honours students (Hayley) has just published her first, first-author paper in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, investigating the effect that #PlasticIngestion has on the formation of scar tissue within the stomach of #seabirds from #LordHoweIsland. While scar tissue formation is a natural part of the healing process, excessive scarring can impact tissue function and cause disease, known as #fibrosis #OpenAccess paper here ➡️ sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We found plastic ingestion was significantly related to severe, organ-wide scar tissue formation in the stomach, with some birds exhibiting a near-complete loss of tissue structure (photo panel on LEFT: collagen/scar tissue has stained blue). This is the first time plastic-related scar tissue formation has been documented in wild animals, but what we could see was so severe that it also led us to propose a new disease, #Plasticosis – fibrosis as a result of plastic.
As >1200 species are already documented to ingest plastic across both aquatic and terrestrial environments (including us!), our findings have major implications.
#WomenInSTEM #seabirds #PlasticPollution #SubLethalEffects #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #silicosis @SeabirdSentinel @TheLabAndField

✨New paper alert✨Imagine you’ve got a piece of plastic stuck in your stomach - stabbing, poking, and prodding constantly. Besides being incredibly uncomfortable, what would that do to your delicate internal tissues?

One of our #AdriftLab Honours students (Hayley) has just published her first, first-author paper in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, investigating the effect that #PlasticIngestion has on the formation of scar tissue within the stomach of #seabirds from #LordHoweIsland. While scar tissue formation is a natural part of the healing process, excessive scarring can impact tissue function and cause disease, known as #fibrosis #OpenAccess paper here ➡️ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304389423003722

We found plastic ingestion was significantly related to severe, organ-wide scar tissue formation in the stomach, with some birds exhibiting a near-complete loss of tissue structure (photo panel on LEFT: collagen/scar tissue has stained blue). This is the first time plastic-related scar tissue formation has been documented in wild animals, but what we could see was so severe that it also led us to propose a new disease, #Plasticosis – fibrosis as a result of plastic.

As >1200 species are already documented to ingest plastic across both aquatic and terrestrial environments (including us!), our findings have major implications.
#WomenInSTEM #seabirds #PlasticPollution #SubLethalEffects #Microplastics #Nanoplastics #silicosis