Microplastics: Small Particles, Big Threat

You have probably heard that plastic pollution is becoming a big problem for the environment, and especially oceans. When piece of reaches sea, seawater sunlight make it slowly fall apart into tiny particles. These small particles are called microplastics even smaller than ladybug—and sometimes not visible. Scientists found many marine animals mistake these food eat them! But what about in coral reefs? Many reefs, including corals giant clams, fixed to bottom sea cannot move. So, they escape from literally “raining down” on them. Recently, we discovered reef only eating microplastics, but plastics can also stick their bodies like flies flypaper!