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Marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists now have come across strange types of rock that contain manmade plastic in all five inhabited continents.

Science & Energy

Scientists Warn That Plastic Rocks Are Appearing Across the World

By Victor Tangermann

A crew on board a ship belonging to the nonprofit Ocean Voyages Institute made an unusual discovery while sailing through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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Researchers Scoop “Mysterious” Plastic Objects Out of Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers examined 40 hermit crabs off the coast of England and found that they may be "sexually excited" by oleamide, a plastic additive, in the water.

No, Plastic Pollution Isn’t Driving Crabs Into a Sexual Frenzy

By Victor Tangermann

An environmental group filed a lawsuit last week against big plastic polluters for knowingly misleading the public about how much plastic is being recycled.

Anti-Coke Lawsuit: “Plastic Is Set to Outweigh Fish in the Ocean”

By Victor Tangermann

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Newly-Evolved Microbes Could Be Eating 90% of Ocean Plastic

By Chelsea Gohd