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What Lurks Beneath

January 18, 2016

Troubling ocean conditions have challenged scientists. Is a silent killer entering San Francisco Bay?

This story first appeared in the January–March 2016 issue of Bay Nature magazine.

Synthetic clothes may be polluting San Francisco Bay

November 17, 2015

A study from UC Davis found tiny plastic fibers, believed to come from manmade fabrics, turning up in water and fish.

Our fish comes with a side order of debris

September 24, 2015

Roughly a quarter of the fish sampled from fish markets in California and Indonesia contained man-made debris — plastic or fibrous material — in their guts, according to a study from the University of California, Davis, and Hasanuddin University in Indonesia.

By Kat Kerlin for University of California News