Ocean’s plastics offer a floating fortress to a mess of microbes
The plastisphere is potentially causing changes in ocean environments
HITCHHIKER A microscopic diatom latches onto a tiny plastic piece from the Sargasso Sea (colors added).
E.R. Zettler/Sea Education Assoc., False color by E. Otwell
Oceanfront property doesn’t come cheap. Except, perhaps, for some seafaring microbes.