CORVALLIS, Ore. – While microplastics have received significant attention in recent years for their negative environmental impacts, a new study ...
Microplastics—tiny particles generated as plastics weather and fragment—pose a growing threat to ecosystem and human health. A new laboratory study ...
The total amount of microplastics deposited on the bottom of oceans has tripled in the past two decades with a ...
Microscopic pieces of plastic, known as microplastics, are found from the tallest mountain ranges to some of the deepest crevasses ...
Microplastics — small plastic pieces less than five millimeters in length — are becoming a ubiquitous ecological contaminant. Studies suggest ...
A study of microplastic pollution in Monterey Bay has found widespread occurrence of microplastics in the seawater and in the ...
Researchers at Princeton Engineering have found a way to turn your breakfast food into a new material that can cheaply ...
Three UK scientists have been awarded the Volvo Environment Prize 2022 for work which has alerted the world to microplastics ...
Although they have not been around for long, microplastics have found their way to almost every ecosystem on the planet. ...
Microplastic (defined to be less than 5 nm) is growing environmental pollution problem. The increase of plastics waste from the ...
Microplastics, tiny particles of plastic that are now found worldwide in the air, water, and soil, are increasingly recognized as ...
It was a shipwreck for the benefit of science. In June 1993, the cargo ship SS Hamada sustained severe damage ...
Even in the most pristine coral reefs, microplastics are pervasive Credit: Catherine Sheila, Pexels, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Even in the most ...
Microplastics are found nearly everywhere on Earth and can be harmful to animals if they’re ingested. But it’s hard to ...
Curtin scientists who analysed seawater samples taken by Jon Sanders on his recent circumnavigation voyage have found microplastics present ...
Studies have shown that tiny plastic pieces are nearly everywhere — in the air, water, food and even inside the ...
A UAB research team has managed to track the behaviour of microplastics during their "journey" through the intestinal tract of ...
In Nigeria, about 90% of water available for drinking is sourced from boreholes, or deep, narrow wells that tap into ...
Plastic rubbish is everywhere and now broken-down microplastics have been found in variable concentrations in blue mussels and water within ...
When plastic enters our oceans, lakes and streams, it can break down into microplastics (MPs) - plastic particles smaller than ...
