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Plastic Pollution Is Melting Onto Coral Reefs

Original: Plastic Is Melting Onto Corals https:// fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wire d.com/story/plastic-is-melting-onto-corals/

A Wired report describes how plastic waste settling on coral reefs can melt onto coral tissue, causing damage to reefs already stressed by warming seas. The story highlights a little-known mechanism by which ocean plastic harms marine ecosystems. Readers are sharing the report as a striking example of how plastic pollution compounds existing threats to ocean life.

Why now: A newly published report on plastic melting onto corals is drawing attention to an underreported ocean pollution threat

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• Plastic Is Melting Onto Corals https:// fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wire d.com/story/plastic-is-melting-onto-corals/ · wired.com@web.brid.gy · 5

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