Microplastic particles are everywhere, and humans and animals are ingesting more of them every year. The Environmental ...

Microplastics, tiny plastic particles found in everyday products from face wash to toothpaste, are an emerging threat to ...

Michigan State University scientists have uncovered a new microbe phylum which helps purify groundwater in Earth's deep ...

Another experiment demonstrated that oysters exposed ... food processing or cooking affects the toxicity of plastics in aquatic organisms or what level of contamination might hurt us.

At the start of the experiment, the plankton organisms—i.e., algae ... As primary producers, algae, aquatic plants and certain bacteria utilize sunlight for photosynthesis to produce biomass ...

The dormant algae cells remained buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for thousands of years, and made a full recovery once ...

His research focuses on landscape patterns of pesticide tolerance in aquatic organisms and how evolved pesticide tolerance affects host-parasite interactions. Riley is fascinated by aquatic ecology.