One man’s trash is a common coot’s treasure, at least when it comes to plastic. In Amsterdam, the birds have been constructing nests out of plastic food wrappers, masks and other waste for at ...

Covid-19 face masks, a chocolate wrapper from 1994 and a 30-year-old polystyrene burger box – the nests of Amsterdam’s Eurasian coots chart changes to consumer society through plastic waste.

Researchers travelled to Lord Howe Island to investigate the impact of plastic consumption on seabird chicks. Some birds were so full of plastic that scientists could "feel the crunching" of ...