Plankton are shifting their range.
A scientist has filmed the moment plastic microfibre is ingested by plankton, illustrating how the material is affecting life beneath the waves.
Its nutrient-rich water is the most productive in the Antarctic, leading to huge plankton and krill blooms that support vast numbers of fish, seals, penguins, and whales.
Subsisting mainly on a diet of plankton and small marine life, flying fish are schooling fish that hunt primarily at night.
"" A 23-Foot-Tall Air Purifier Gets a Tryout in Smoggy Beijing "" Rather than the screens, sensors, microchips and Big Data typically employed by Smart City designers, Daan Roosegaarde works with a more fanciful tool kit: smog-eating machines, light-emitting plankton and solar-sensitive paint.
"It implies there was a rich source of plankton at the time, upon which these things may have fed," said Derek Briggs, a paleontologist at Yale University and one of the study's authors.
The love letter was written in code and on paper towels, but she soon remembered the way she used to pass notes with Attebery that summer, when she worked at a geology lab sorting plankton.
