- Ten per cent of the oxygen we breathe comes from just one kind of bacteria in the ocean. Now laboratory tests have shown that these bacteria are susceptible to plastic pollution, according to a new study https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0410-x 776 comments science
Linking pages
- Plastics Recycling Is Far Worse Than We Thought – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/05/plastics-recycling-failure-microplastics-pollution-study/ 107 comments
- Yet Another Problem With Recycling: It Spews Microplastics | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/yet-another-problem-with-recycling-it-spews-microplastics/ 76 comments
- Alarming study finds plastic ocean pollution harms bacteria that produce the oxygen we breathe https://newatlas.com/plastic-ocean-pollution-bacteria-photosynthesis-oxygen/59688/ 5 comments
- More Plastic Is On the Way: What It Means for Climate Change https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/02/20/plastic-production-climate-change/ 2 comments
- Now Ocean Plastics Could Be Killing Oxygen-Making Bacteria | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/ocean-plastics-bacteria 0 comments