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Reporting in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, researchers found that plastic microfibers can entangle some of the smallest aquatic creatures: water fleas.

Read the paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00279
(Corresponding author: Vera I. Slaveykova, Ph.D.)

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