Seabirds ingest large quantities of pollutants, some of which have been banned for decades (IMAGE)

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Seabirds ingest large quantities of pollutants, some of which have been banned for decades

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Even in an isolated archipelago, resident boobies showed contamination by DDT

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Janeide Padilha/University of Minho

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