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Great Barrier Reef

10/29/2017 / By Janine Acero

Our oceans are so polluted that the coral are now eating plastic, new study finds

Scientists believe corals have developed a taste for plastic adrift the oceans, which means corals are ingesting the chemical additives within these plastics, as reported in a Daily Mail article. The researchers at Duke University discovered the concerning situation after the corals in their experiments ate all types of plastics, “but preferred unfouled microplastics by a threefold […]

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