11 billion pieces of plastic bring disease threat to coral reefs
- Written by Joleah Lamb, Research fellow, Cornell University
A plastic bottle trapped on a coral reef.Tane Sinclair-Taylor, Author provided
There are more than 11 billion pieces of plastic debris on coral reefs across the Asia-Pacific, according to our new research, which also found that contact with plastic can make corals more than 20 times more susceptible to disease.
In our study, published today in...
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