Still Waters Posted December 4, 2021 #1 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Coastal plants and animals have found a new way to survive in the open ocean—by colonizing plastic pollution. A new commentary published Dec. 2 in Nature Communications reports coastal species growing on trash hundreds of miles out to sea in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, more commonly known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." "The issues of plastic go beyond just ingestion and entanglement," said Linsey Haram, lead author of the article and former postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC). "It's creating opportunities for coastal species' biogeography to greatly expand beyond what we previously thought was possible." https://phys.org/news/2021-12-ocean-plastic-life-high-seas.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27188-6 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted December 4, 2021 #2 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Eventually nature/life finds a way. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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