Expedition to study scale of microplastics on Atlantic's smallest creatures

Scientists will sail from the UK to the Falkland Islands to study the level of microplastic pollution on tiny zooplankton at the bottom of the food chainScientists will set off from the east coast of England this week to journey thousands of miles across the Atlantic to discover how bad the problem of the oceans’ tiniest creatures eating microplastics has become.Zooplankton are essential for the marine food web right up to the fish we eat, and are known to be more likely to die and be wors