A research group led by Prof. DANG Fei from the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. ZHONG Huan from Nanjing University, has uncovered a ...

An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists have mapped ...

Researchers studying microplastic contamination in common beverages made a startling discovery: Drinks stored in glass bottles contained between five and 50 times the level of microplastics as drinks ...

Ambuj Tewari receives funding from NSF and NIH. The microplastics project is funded by the “Meet the Moment” initiative of the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Plastic and microplastic pollution has become a defining environmental concern of our time; headlines warn that these invisible particles might be infiltrating our food and drink. But how much of this ...

Microplastics, tiny plastic particles often invisible to the naked eye, have become nearly ubiquitous in our environment. From bottled water and seafood to dust and packaged foods, humans ...

The major sources of ‘microplastic’ pollution along India’s coasts are “riverine inputs” and abandoned, lost, and discarded fishing gear, Minister Jitendra Singh said in a written response to a query ...

JAKARTA: The recent viral phenomena of "microplastic rain" in Jakarta is not a passing story, it is a stark warning of Indonesia's plastic contamination catastrophe. It is physical proof that plastic ...

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