Natural History Wanderings

The BBC reports

Chris Jordan’s 2009 photos of dead albatross chicks with plastic in their guts went viral. Anna Turns looks at how it changed our response to the plastics crisis

When photographer Chris Jordan first stepped onto Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in September 2009 to document “overwhelming” levels of ocean waste, little did he know that his striking image of a dead albatross chick would go viral and change the world’s response to the plastics crisis.