An experiment captured juvenile ambon damselfish and fed microplastics to some of them and not to others. Then it released them in various areas of the Great Barrier Reef.

The ones that ate microplastics took more risks, and those released in degraded parts of the reef were all eaten within 72 hours.

One of the scientists says that this is because after the fish eat what feels like enough, part of what they ate was microplastics, and the part that was food was not sufficient. This kind of problem results from having large quantities of microplastics.

A few years from now, we can expect the whole reef to be degraded, and fish species that microplastics make careless could go extinct. Their extinction will be due to a combination of human actions: those that cause global heating, together with the making of plastic that we can't recycle.

Qatar thugs took all the women off a plane waiting to fly to Sydney and strip-searched them, trying to determine if any of them was the mother of a newborn found dead in the airport.

More women were taken off other flights, to other countries.

Why was Qatar trying so hard to find the mother? I speculate that the purpose was to punish her; right-wing religious extremists often like to punish women.

Counting recent burials shows Yemen has a massive outbreak of Covid-19.

If the US had stopped intervening, and let the Houthis win the civil war, Yemen would have no trouble now getting ventilators, medicines and medical-quality masks for doctors.

US citizens: call on the National Marine Fisheries Service to avoid endangering the southern resident orcas.

Sea-level rise is eliminating beaches that used to be economic hubs for tourism.

It will get worse and worse unless we stop our greenhouse emissions quickly. But don't attach substantive importance to the Paris treaty, which the wrecker is symbolically withdrawing the US from; it was never more than symbolic itself, since it was undermined in advance by planet roasters.