Microplastics May Now Be Messing with Our Weather and Climate. Here’s What That Means
Researchers reveal microplastics can influence cloud formation, potentially affecting weather and climate systems
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Dolphins Are Exhaling Microplastics: What Does It Mean for Marine Life?
U.S. researchers found microplastic particles in dolphin breath, raising new concerns about ocean pollution.
Your water contains microplastics. There’s a surprisingly simple way to remove them
A simple trick you can do at home can clean your water from the vast majority of microplastics.
There are probably microplastics in your penis
No escape from microplastics.
Scientists find microplastics in every semen sample they’ve tested
The findings underscore the potential peril of plastic pollution for male fertility and human health.
Over 90% of polar birds have microplastics inside them
We knew microplastic pollution was a problem, but it's a bigger problem than we thought.
We’re all drinking plastic. Shocking study finds a single bottle of water contains over 240,000 plastic fragments
Water bottles are filled with thousands of tiny plastic particles.
That lovely Christmas snow? It probably has microplastics in it
Microplastics are not just transported by water. They can me moved by the air, ending in the snow.
Tidying up: New plastic material is biodegradable both in the ocean and on dry land
This brings us one step closer to an Earth without plastic pollution.
How microplastics harm us: they help viruses survive longer and travel farther
Microplastics are everywhere, and we're only starting to discover the problems they cause.
These self-healing robot fish can gobble up the microplastics from our seas
Maybe not man but robots can save the world from plastic.
Scientists find novel antibiotics in ocean plastic pollution
Plastic pollution is a huge problem, but it could unexpectedly help solve another major challenge: antibiotic-resistanc superbugs.
Farmlands in Europe may be the single largest reservoir of microplastics in the world
We might have unknowingly been dumping huge quantities of microplastics on our croplands.
This new vegetable-based goo can remove microplastics from water
Plastic pollution is a massive problem, so we have to come up with new and creative ways forward.
Microplastics may alter our cell metabolism
Microplastics get into our bodies, potentially altering how certain cells convert sugar into energy, especially in the gut. Continued ingestion ...
We could blast microplastics out of water using loudspeakers, although the tech is still young
There are some concerns regarding the use of this tech near marine life, but the concept works.
Airborne microplastics have a growing influence on the climate, but we need more data
It's big enough to know something is happening. But we're still unsure exactly what.
Most baby turtles in the oceans have plastic in their guts. ‘It’s an evolutionary trap,’ scientists say
The impact on their health is unclear but it can’t be too good.
Mollusks are the most plastic-filled seafood in the world
Bad news for sushi.
No place high enough to hide: microplastics found on Mt. Everest
Microplastics have been discovered from the depths of the ocean all the way to the highest mountain on Earth.
Infant feeding bottles may release millions of microplastics during formula preparation
Although this may sound alarming, scientists say that parents shouldn't necessarily be concerned.
More than 50,000 tonnes of microplastics generated by road traffic end up in the ocean
Some of these tiny particles travel as far as the Arctic, accelerating melting in remote snow- and ice-covered regions.
Nanoplastics can contaminate plants, making them smaller, shorter
Plastic waste could impact our crops.
Florida’s birds of prey are full of microplastics
Please stop, plastics.
Microplastics are all over the place, even in the sea breeze
Researchers found fragments of plastic in sea spray.
Plastic pollution is now in the fossil record
Plastic deposits in the soil have increased exponentially sine WWII, doubling every 15 years.
Magnetic coils, the new way to deal with microplastics
Flowing through rivers and oceans, plastic waste has become an important environmental threat across the globe.
Plastic is “everywhere” in the ocean, including its deepest trenches — “There’s no good aspect to this,” researchers say
Thrash we've thrown away years ago is killing ocean life as you're reading this.
Microplastics could break down whole ecosystems — they’re making prey unresponsive to predators
This could be a very bad development.
Contact lenses break down into microplastics — so don’t flush them down!
Just throw them in the trash if you don't want them on your plate later on.
Arctic sea ice chock-full of microplastics, with over 12,000 particles per litre of ice
It should basically be called Arctic sea plastic by now.
Containing Asia’s coasts is out best bet for plastic-free ocean
Plastic bags, bottle caps and plastic fibres are among the myriad of micro plastic debris that wash out into the ...
