Microplastic pollution in world’s oceans poses major threat to filter-feeding megafauna

Mongabay
Mar 23, 2018, 11:35 am439 pts
Even as the world is waking up to the problems created by the massive amounts of plastic pollution in Earth’s oceans — and taking steps to address the issue — new research is shedding light on how detrimental that pollution is to marine wildlife. A study published in the journal Trends in Ecology &…

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