Microplastics, tiny plastic particles found in everyday products from face wash to toothpaste, are an emerging threat to ...

Microplastic particles are everywhere, and humans and animals are ingesting more of them every year. The Environmental ...

If you’re a kid who has participated in a GARNA or Trout Unlimited summer program or field trip, there is a good chance you ...

Stream algae is seen in a stream at the Notre Dame Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility, or ND-LEEF, where the experiments were conducted for the study titled "Transport and retention of ...

harmful algae is becoming more of a problem with several county health departments issuing watches and warnings. In addition to algal blooms, monitoring teams have also detected benthic algal mats ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic level consumers. A research group examined terrestrial reliance of 19 ...

According to the study, benthic macroinvertebrates and the benthivorous ... of hydrogen from 19 different consumer groups, from algae to top predators, from 35 boreal lakes and estimated consumer ...

The research team’s study, “Transport and retention of microplastic fibers in streams are impacted by benthic algae, discharge, and substrate,” was published in Limnology and Oceanography in ...