Previous studies have shown that engineered nanomaterials can be transferred from prey to predator, but the ecological impacts of this are mostly unknown. In particular, it is not known if these ...

Researchers have produced a groundbreaking study of how nanoparticles are able to biomagnify in a simple microbial food chain. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has produced ...

While plastics have revolutionized pharmaceutical packaging, that evolution within the industry has come at a cost.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has produced a groundbreaking study of how nanoparticles are able to biomagnify in a simple microbial food chain. "This was a simple ...

The concentrations of many historically used, and now widely banned, pesticides and other toxic chemicals -- called legacy contaminants -- can become magnified in an animal that eats contaminated food ...

Some compounds are neither recycled by decomposers nor are they released into the atmosphere. Instead, they remain in the ecosystem in virtually unchanged form as they are passed from one organism to ...

Being apex predators in the North Pacific, elephant seals accumulate high concentrations of mercury in their bodies, and when they shed their fur during their annual molt, they offload that toxic ...