Researchers found 778 individual pieces of plastic in one bird on Australia's Lord Howe Island Rachel McRady is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an entertainment journalist for more than ...
On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal-clear ocean live some of the most plastic-contaminated birds in the world. They have bellies so full of fragments, they crunch when touched.
At Lord Howe’s inaugural Dark Sky Festival, we learn how this island paradise is on track to be certified not only as an International Dark Sky Place, but Australia’s first Dark Sky Island. Lord Howe ...