One of the best ways to spend a hot summer day in the Seacoast is at the beach. Even better — exploring the beach and the surrounding intertidal. Who doesn’t love poking around in tide pools, gently ...

An enormous amount of water passes through mussels each day—but microplastics stay behind. Introducing more of the creatures who could help keep oceans cleaner—just make sure you have an easy way to ...

The PLM scientists said that at concentrations encountered in the marine environment, the plastics are unlikely to cause the mussels any harm, and indeed this was shown to be the case in the flume ...