Zooplankton in ocean and freshwater are rapidly escalating the global environmental threat of plastics

ScienceDaily
Nov 9, 2023, 12:14 pm88 pts
A collaborative research team has recently revealed that rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in both fresh and ocean water around the world, are able to chew apart microplastics, breaking them down into even smaller, and potentially more dangerous, nanoplastics -- or particles smaller than one…

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