Plastics suspect in lobster illness

Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 10:49 in Biology & Nature

The search for what causes a debilitating shell disease affecting lobsters from Long Island Sound to Maine has led one scientist to suspect environmental alkyphenols, formed primarily by the breakdown of hard transparent plastics. read more

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