Scientists discover alarming new effect of plastic pollution in the ocean: '[Things are] rapidly changing'
Plastic trash is acting like a life raft.
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Plastic trash is acting like a life raft.
Scientists discovered another worrying effect of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — plastic acting as a life raft for invasive species.
These findings identify a new human-caused impact on the ocean, documenting the scale and potential consequences that were not previously understood.
The Maui News Researchers led by the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa have found that a surprising number of coastal marine invertebrate species can now sur
A study in Nature Ecology and Evolution, led by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa, reveals that a remarkable diversity of coastal marine invertebrates has successfully colonized the high seas.