Plastic-Eating Corals Discovered on Great Barrier Reef

ENN
Feb 24, 2015, 2:49 pm19 pts
Researchers in Australia have found that corals commonly found on the Great Barrier Reef will eat micro-plastic pollution. “Corals are non-selective feeders and our results show that they can consume microplastics when the plastics are present in seawater,” says Dr Mia Hoogenboom, a Chief Investigator with…

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