Ocean’s plastics offer a floating fortress to a mess of microbes

The plastisphere is potentially causing changes in ocean environments

floating microbes

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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