Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

(“The trees get all the credit,” Walsh said.) They also occupy an important place in the food chain in the Hudson. Without plankton, Walsh said, “there’s not enough for the oysters to e ...

When the plankton is consumed by fish or shellfish, it moves up the food chain and when birds and larger marine mammals eat affected fish or shellfish it can accumulate in their system.

This shift begins at the microscopic level—altering conditions for plankton—and ripples up the food chain, potentially affecting everything from fish populations to marine mammals. So ...

If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean ... many ocean fish come of age are rich in plankton and other fish food—and now also ...

Studies have already shown that microplastics can be taken up by plants on land or plankton in the ocean ... the evidence related to the land-based food chain “is certainly raising alarm ...