Plastic-eating corals make reefs especially vulnerable to pollution

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 14:30 in Earth & Climate

Brooks HaysCAIRNS, Australia, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Researchers studying the Great Barrier Reef have found that corals there don't discriminate between real prey like plankton and faux food like microplastics.

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