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A first baseline survey finds microplastics at every site of Kerala's Alappuzha–Changanacherry Canal, with monsoon runoff raising concentrations by 48.2%.

A preliminary study of Bandung, Indonesia finds airborne microplastics at a mean of 6.81 particles per cubic meter, dominated by ...

A Swedish study measured microplastics including tyre rubber in highway stormwater at 2.4 to 4200 micrograms per litre during rainfall ...

A new multi-level preprocessing and clustering framework for FT-IR spectral imaging achieved perfect classification of four common microplastic polymers while ...

A study of braaied fish sold by informal roadside vendors in Limpopo Province, South Africa, found microplastics in every edible ...

An outdoor mesocosm experiment with American bullfrog tadpoles found that both water and food delivered microplastics, but the waterborne pathway ...

A new study finds microplastics in every sample of water and sediment from an Amazonian floodplain lake, dominated by blue ...

A new ToF-SIMS study shows that principal component analysis of ubiquitous negative hydrocarbon ions can classify polymers, quantify carbon density, ...

A new study of soil from India's Sukhna Lake watershed shows that environmentally weathered microplastics are oxidized, mineral-coated, and contaminated ...

Microplastic pollution has quietly become one of the defining contamination challenges of modern agriculture, and the terrestrial dimension of this ...