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Sediment clouds from mining can travel hundreds or even thousands of miles, potentially disrupting the entire mid-water food web and affecting important species such as tuna.
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Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Through photosynthesis, the particles of light power a cellular reaction that manufactures chemical energy (in the form of sugars), which is then passed around the food web in a complex dance of herbivores, predators, scavengers, decomposers, and more.
—Asher Elbein, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2025
Scientists estimate a garbage truck's worth of plastic waste enters the oceans every minute, where large debris threatens fish, sea turtles and marine mammals with entanglement and smaller plastics enter the ocean food web.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
These invaders have disrupted the Great Lakes food web and clogged cities’ water intake systems, causing at least $138 million in damage per year.
—Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2025
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Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Through photosynthesis, the particles of light power a cellular reaction that manufactures chemical energy (in the form of sugars), which is then passed around the food web in a complex dance of herbivores, predators, scavengers, decomposers, and more.
—Asher Elbein, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2025
Scientists estimate a garbage truck's worth of plastic waste enters the oceans every minute, where large debris threatens fish, sea turtles and marine mammals with entanglement and smaller plastics enter the ocean food web.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
These invaders have disrupted the Great Lakes food web and clogged cities’ water intake systems, causing at least $138 million in damage per year.
—Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Food web.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/food%20web. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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