Microplastics may heat marine turtle nests and produce more females
- Written by Mariana Fuentes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University
Green sea turtle. Miroslav Halama/shutterstock.comHave you ever considered that small pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters long, or smaller than a pencil eraser head, called microplastics, can affect large marine vertebrates like sea turtles?
My research team first discovered this disturbing fact when we started to quantify the amount and type...
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