Microplastics and nanoplastics are so small and lightweight they can be swept into the air, where they may be helping to heat ...
Recent research on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is reshaping how scientists and the public understand ocean pollution. Long viewed simply as a floating mass of waste, the patch is now found to ...
As plastic tumbles against itself, it fragments, and a new study shows those fragments don't stay in the water.
A new study published in Nature Climate Change found that colored microplastics suspended in the atmosphere may contribute ...
The open ocean has new inhabitants ...
What’s been found?: Scientists discovered that coloured airborne microplastics absorb sunlight, trapping heat and contributing to climate change. Where’s the impact?: Hotspots like the Great Pacific ...
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