Coastal Management
Caffeinated Seas: Unique Tracers for Wastewater-borne Contaminants
Did you ever think your coffee addiction could help solve marine pollution? It turns out all that caffeine and artificial…
Tag: toxin
Behavior
Deadly neurotoxin may help de-stress pufferfish
The flesh of many pufferfish is laced with a deadly neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin. This toxin successfully wards off pufferfish predators,…
Human impacts
Larval fish foraging grounds inundated by plastic pollution
If the adage "you are what you eat" holds true, we may be in some big trouble. A recent study…