I was shocked to read this morning about the albatross chicks on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The photos, taken by American Photography Chris Jordan, depict the nesting babies who are fed bellies-full of plastic by their unaware parents.

On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

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