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Microplastics and nanoplastics cause significant environmental concerns due to their potentially harmful effects on ecosystems and wildlife. This World Environment Day (June 5), let’s vow to...
The Frost nails its uncanny, disconcerting vibe in its first few shots. Vast icy mountains, a makeshift camp of military-style tents, a group of people huddled...
Here, bits of plastic can end up collecting various types of bacteria, which cling to their surfaces. Seabirds that ingest them not only end up with...
The news: While we know that tiny pieces of plastic are everywhere, we don’t fully understand what they’re doing to us or other animals. Now, new...
To find out if the microbes being introduced might be “good” or “bad”, Fackelmann and her colleagues analyzed the microbiomes and looked up individual types of...
With plastic use and its presence in the environment becoming more prevalent, it should not come as a surprise that a group of scientists has discovered...
Plastics, more specifically microplastics, have permeated every sphere of our lives. In a new disturbing study, researchers have found micro- and nano-plastics (MNPs) pass on from...
Researchers have found higher concentrations of airborne microplastics indoors than outdoors, shedding light on people’s potential exposure to them. For their study, published in Environmental Science & Technology,...
From ocean depths to mountain peaks, humans have littered the planet with tiny shards of plastic. We have even absorbed these microplastics into our bodies —...
A team of scientists has found the presence of microplastics in human blood for the first time. These microplastics were used in beverage bottles and food...
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