The film details the methods used to collect and analyze seawater and plankton samples, emphasizing the importance of these organisms as the foundation of the ocean's food chain. It discusses the ...

Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

When the plankton is consumed by fish or shellfish, it moves up the food chain and when birds and larger marine mammals eat affected fish or shellfish it can accumulate in their system.

"There's also the fact that as time goes on, those nurdles will degrade into smaller bits and they'll get into the food chain via plankton and then work their way up. "And indeed we are part of ...

Species impacted include the protected harbour porpoise to plankton - both ends of the marine food chain - as well as otters, seals and seabirds. The area is home to significant and important ...

But this still has the potential to be an environmental disaster - with both short and long term impacts - affecting everything from the smallest plankton ... move up the food chain from fish ...

Since plankton are essential for the food chain, most ocean animals could soon go extinct. Plastic has already been found in animals at the bottom of the sea. If we keep this up, there will be ...