#rotifers — Public Fediverse posts
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#Zooplankton in #ocean and freshwater are rapidly escalating the global environmental threat of #plastics, finds study
#rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in fresh and ocean water around world, are able to chew apart #microplastics, breaking them down into even smaller, and potentially more dangerous, #nanoplastics—particles smaller than one micron. Each #rotifer can create between 348,000–366,000 per day, leading to uncountable swarms of nanoparticles. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-zooplankton-ocean-freshwater-rapidly-escalating.html