Biology Human impacts Plastic Pollution Plankton are eating plastic! Zooplankton, the tiny animals that make up the base of marine food webs, are ingesting microplastics. Given the widespread abundance…
Book Review Coral Human impacts Plastic Pollution Corals consume microplastics! Talk about an unhealthy diet! The dangerous diet fad among marine organisms is spreading! New study shows corals consume microplastics.
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Chemistry Double Trouble: Marine Plastic Debris Absorbs Toxic Pollutants Recently, you may have heard that scientists have discovered small plastic particles floating in the open ocean and in the…
Biogeochemistry Chemistry Waiter, there’s a whale in my soup: investigating the South Pacific garbage patch Plastic debris has been found in both the North Pacific and North Atlantic since the early 1970s. It accumulates in…
Biology Life in plastic, it’s fantastic…for microbes in the plastisphere Scientists find a diverse and distinct community of microorganisms that live on plastic trash at the surface of the North…