Pacific Garbage Patch Transforms into Biodiversity Hotspot
TL;DR
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, once seen solely as pollution, is now hosting diverse marine communities, including species typically found near coastlines, which are reproducing and thriving on plastic debris, transforming it into a new habitat in the open ocean.
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