Garbage Ecology: The Secret World Of That Floating Ocean Plastisphere
Monday, February 24, 2014 - 22:10
in Biology & Nature
You may not know it but on our biosphere - Earth - there is also a relatively unknown world hiding in plain sight. It is composed of microbes that live on floating pieces of plastic floating on the ocean. This "Plastisphere" of microbial organisms living on ocean plastic that was first discovered last year and it is now getting studied. read more