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“Life, uh, finds a way.” Jeff Goldblum lounging across a chair in sunglasses may seem an unlikely symbol of evolutionary prescience, but he was right. Or the character he was playing in Jurassic Park was, anyway.
Coastal critters thought to be strangers to the open ocean have been found amongst the seething mass of plastic waste that is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
We learn that it could have unforeseen consequences for marine life
A study has shown that 70% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch became a hospitable habitat to several coastal species. Read more here.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, containing over 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and estimated to be 1.6 million square kilometres, is an ecological disaster. A new study, however, shows that this giant collection of plastic trash has also become home to thousands of marine life, creating a new kind of ecosystem