Microplastics found in fish in Tuvalu, a remote South Pacific nation

Microplastics found in fish in Tuvalu, a remote South Pacific nation

Tuvalu is a remote Polynesian nation made up of three reef islands and six atolls. Home to fewer than 11,000 people, Tuvalu is 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) from its nearest neighbor in Fiji. Yet dispite its isolation and small population, new research shows that the ocean ecosystems around Tuvalu are polluted with microplastics. A team of researchers collected 201 individual fish from 44 species around Funafuti Atoll, the capital of Tuvalu. They…