Ocean’s plastics offer a floating fortress to a mess of microbes
The plastisphere is potentially causing changes in ocean environments

HITCHHIKER A microscopic diatom latches onto a tiny plastic piece from the Sargasso Sea (colors added).
E.R. Zettler/Sea Education Assoc., False color by E. Otwell
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