The peer-reviewed study, led by Ocean Conservancy scientists, gathered previously collected data about more than 10,000 ...
Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...
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From Plastic to Protein: What Mealworms Eat and Their Surprising Ecofriendly Contribution
Serbian scientists at Belgrade’s Institute for Biology are developing a novel way to combat plastic waste by training mealworms to digest polystyrene, a common but persistent material used in ...
Why is marine life eating plastic? Scientists say their sonar is being fooled. How do dolphins and other toothed whales mistake plastic for food? At the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina, ...
For years it was assumed that sea creatures ate disposed-of plastics by accident. Now, we know the real reason they eat this literal junk food: because they like it. According to marine science ...
A new study says an amount of plastic “smaller than you might think” in the guts of seabirds and aquatic animals can be fatal, the first time that researchers say they’ve quantified how much can be ...
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