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This overlay image of a zooplankton from a fluorescence microscope shows algae as blue and microplastics as red. Zooplankton exposed to high microplastic concentrations often have many microplastic ...

Looks like it’s plastic for lunch. For the first time, plankton have been caught on camera munching on tiny pieces of plastic. To see the problem for themselves, the team surrounded copepods – a type ...