The Great Barrier reef corals are eating micro-plastic pollution -- and that's probably not a good thing

Eric Hopton for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online With the world's oceans becoming choked with plastic, it's easy to see that it's probably not a good thing. And when scientists in Australia found that corals on the Great Barrier Reef readily eat micro-plastic pollution, they were concerned. The reef is already threatened by the effects of…