Tag: environmental impact of microplastics

Microplastics have turned up in yet another corner of the global food system, and this time researchers have paired their ...

Microplastics have now been shown to subtly but measurably rewire the swimming behavior of one of North America's most widespread ...

Microplastics, the tiny fragments of plastic debris now recognized in everything from deep-sea sediments to human placental tissue, may be ...

Brazilian researchers have unveiled a rigorous new laboratory protocol for tracking one of the most pervasive pollutants of the modern ...

Researchers in Latvia have developed a laboratory method that, for the first time, allows the microplastics released from plastic-based materials ...

Plastic waste is often imagined as something that disappears from everyday life once it is buried beneath layers of soil, ...

A fluffy, seaweed-inspired “net” could offer a new way to remove microplastics from water, capturing particles that range from visible ...

Microplastics are no longer a distant environmental problem confined to oceans and landfill sites. They are moving through the global ...

Microplastics (MPs) — plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters — have infiltrated the environment at an alarming scale, appearing in ...

A groundbreaking study conducted at the Institute of Science and Technology of São Paulo State University (ICT-UNESP) in São José ...