Arctic seabirds build nests with plastic waste
The Barents Sea is one of the global oceans' dead ends, which means plastic from elsewhere is accumulating there.
May 16, 2018
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Thousands and thousands of birds are packed together, making noise, quarreling with each other over each square centimeter on the cliffs at Gjesværstappan, the largest colonies of cliff-breeding seabirds in Norway’s Finnmark region. With the North Cape only a few kilometers further north, and the fish-rich Barents Sea as nearest neighbor, the location couldn’t have been better.
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