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Given tens of millions of years, wildly improbable events – like primates crossing oceans – are almost a given.
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Ocean swimmers often wax lyrical about the benefits of a regular dip in the salt water.
A plastic bottle trapped on a coral reef.
Tane Sinclair-Taylor
Coral reefs in the Asia-Pacific have been deluged with an estimated 11.1 billion pieces of plastic waste, increasing the risk of coral disease more than 20-fold.
Pollution and debris off the Sri Lankan coast.
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A new documentary highlights the plight of marine animals living among the estimated 5 trillion pieces of plastic rubbish generated by humans.