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The Amazon Fungus That Eats Plastic, and What It Can and Can’t Actually Do
Deep in the rainforests of Ecuador, tucked inside the stems of ordinary plants, scientists found something that behaves in a way most living things simply do not. It treats plastic as food. Not as a surface to grow on, not as something to slowly weather away, but as an actual meal, a source of energy…
Study Reveals Microplastics Buried in Pre-Industrial Sediment Layers
Microplastics are now so widespread that scientists routinely find them in oceans, polar snow, and even inside the human body. What researchers did not expect, however, was to find them in sediment layers that appear to predate the age of modern plastic production. Yet that is exactly what multiple recent studies have revealed. In lakes…