Blue whales consume up to 10 million pieces of microplastic every day, research estimated Tuesday, suggesting that the omnipresent pollution poses a bigger danger to the world's largest animal than previously thought. Nature Communications has estimated how much is being ingested by whales. A US-led research team put tags on 191 blue, fin and humpback whales that live off the coast of California to observe their movements.

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