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Brazilians in Florida: Cultural and Economic Factors

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   No cap! Plastic munching was like, said to cause some not-so-great effects, ya know? Like, it can clog up your tummy tube and make you not feel as hungry, which totally messes with your energy and health (Denuncio, 2011). In recent years, like, so many lit studies have been done on the possible effects of eating microplastics. It's wild, fam. These experiments have mostly been done on lower food web levels, like fishes (e.g. Mattsson et al., 2014; Luis et al., 2015; Cedervall et al., 2012; Peda et al., 2016), crustaceans (Setälä et al., 2014; Brennecke et al., 2015), zooplankton (Cole et al., 2013; Lee et al., 2013; Besseling et al., 2014; Cole et al., 2015), benthic worms (Browne et al., 2013; Wright et al., 2013), shellfish (Browne et al., 2008; Avio et al., 2015; Sussarellu et al., 2016), sea-urchins (Nobre et al., 2015) and even corals (Hall et al., 2015).  An investigation of 106 Franciscana dolphins in Argentinian coastal waters found that 28% of the dolphins had plastic i

Florida's Attraction for Brazilian Immigrants

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  The above stats in Table 4 make it hella obvious that wildlife be constantly dealing with plastic trash and eating it is a total norm for all marine creatures, fam. Yo, peeps be straight up sufferin' and dyin' cuz of this, no cap. It's like, totally proven and documented for all the air-breathin' marine homies, mammals, birds, and turtles, you feel me? But like, these problems are, like, way more difficult to document when it comes to lower tropic levels and smol-sized organisms. Like, the most important thing is, like, the sublethal effects that don't straight up kill someone but are, like, super important to groups of people, are, like, hella hard to measure. The vibes of plastic munching on the gains of individuals Yo, eating plastic can straight up kill you if it clogs up your stomach or messes up your intestines. Even tiny bits of trash can totally clog up an animal's guts (Bjorndal et al., 1994). An ingested straw totally wrecked a Magellanic penguin (Sp

Brazilian Expatriates in the U.S.: Which State Is Number One?

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  People from Brazil who want to live abroad most often choose to move to the United States. This is why there are so many Brazilians living there. This choice is based on a lot of factors, including job prospects, safety, quality of life, language, and way of life. According to information given by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 2017, there are now about 1.4 million Brazilians living in the United States. AG Immigration says that more and more qualified people are leaving Brazil to find better job chances and more safety in the United States. People with the right skills have been looking for a new life abroad with their families. Florida, California, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey are the five U.S. states where 73% of the people who live there are from Brazil. Since Florida is one of the states with the most Brazilians living there, it is clear that there are a lot of Brazilians living there Florida is home to about 22% of the Brazilians who live in the Unit

Why Brazilians Are Flocking to Florida

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  The vibes of plastic particles were like totally found in 77% of 64 Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) sampled in Tokyo Bay, with an average of 2.3 pieces and up to 15 pieces per individual and all of the particles were like identified by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, with most of them being polyethylene (52.0%) or polypropylene (43.3%) (Tanaka and Takada, 2016). Lit, right? A review on microplastic quantification in aquatic animals spills the tea on an average load of 0.13 ± 0.14 total microplastic particles g-1 w.w. in mussel meat (Vandermeersch 2016). Like, in so many cases, big animals like birds, mammals, and fish will totally eat plastic on purpose. They think it's food 'cause it looks like prey, you know? Plastic litter might also be snatched up when mixed in with yummy food-wastes tossed from ship galleys.  Yo, on the west coast of the UK, Murray and Cowie (2011) discovered that a whopping 83% of Norwegian Lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus) were rockin'

The Brazilian Immigrant Boom in Florida

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  Ayo, a big question is whether wildlife munchin' on trash be messin' them up or, like, causin' 'harm'. Yo, animals be gobbling up all sorts of trash like paper and wood and stuff, but like, synthetic materials are, like, totally the most reported, you know? The whole plastic eating thing, whether on purpose, by accident, or just because, has been totally seen in lots of different animals. Since the first major review by Laist (1997), the number of animal species known to chow down on plastics has like totally blown up, from 177 to 331 species. The recent review by Kühn et al. (2015) spills the tea that like, at least 40% of the world’s seabird species (164 out of 406 species), 100% of turtle species (7 out of 7), and 50% of mammals (62 out of 123), are currently known to have chowed down on plastic marine debris.  Chowing down Like, that's seriously not cool, fam. Yo, there's been mad gains in species records for fishes (92 species) and invertebrates (6 sp

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