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    It’s not just fish, plastic pollution harms the bacteria that help us breathe

    ByNiall 14 May, 201917 March, 2020

    Ten per cent of the oxygen we breathe comes from just one kind of bacteria in the ocean. Now laboratory tests have shown that these bacteria are susceptible to plastic pollution, according to a study published in Communications Biology tonight. “We found that exposure to chemicals leaching from plastic pollution interfered with the growth, photosynthesis…

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