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Diatoms (green) and bacteria (pink) living on ocean plastic. This is a false colour SEM image of part of the surface of a 5mm long plastic (yellow) from waters off eastern Tasmania, Australia. Julia Reisser and Jeremy Shaw

Creatures living on tiny ocean plastic may be cleaning our seas

Julia Reisser, The University of Western Australia; Charitha Pattiaratchi, The University of Western Australia, and Jeremy Shaw, The University of Western Australia

We know that Australia’s waters contain lots of tiny pieces of plastic, and that these pieces can harm many marine species. But in new research published today we show that these microplastics are also…
Debris or not debris? Floating rubbish could hamper the search for MH370. AAP Image/AP Pool, Kim Christian

The difficulty of searching for MH370 in a giant rubbish patch

Charitha Pattiaratchi, The University of Western Australia and Julia Reisser, The University of Western Australia

Frustratingly, the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has turned up many floating objects, but none of them are from the plane. That’s largely because the latest search area is likely to…
Much of Australia’s waste plastic is ending up in the ocean, and in fish. John Schneider

Australian waters polluted by harmful tiny plastics

Julia Reisser, The University of Western Australia and Charitha Pattiaratchi, The University of Western Australia

Each square kilometre of Australian sea surface water is contaminated by around 4,000 pieces of tiny plastics, according to our study published today in journal PLOS ONE and data repository Figshare. These…

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