A Review of 7,000 Studies Says You Should Be Worried About Microplastics. Here Are 5 Simple Ways to Limit Your Exposure
A review of two decades of research found microplastics are literally everywhere. Here’s what you need to know, and what you ...
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Doctor Warns That Microplastics Accumulate In Our Brains And Shares Three Tips To Avoid Them. – ‘Don’t heat any of your food in plastic.’
Microplastics are no joke and today we’re going to hear from a doctor who took to TikTok to warn folks about this menace and ...
Microplastics Are Now Being Found in the Breath of Dolphins
Bottlenose dolphins probably don't have the greatest breath. It's probably pretty fishy. According to a new study, dolphin's ...
At this Northwestern professor's lab, plastic-eating microbes show promise to gobble up microplastics in nature
We can learn from nature to engineer sustainable solutions," says Ludmilla Aristilde, who led a scientific team identifying ...
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Scientists Have Found Microplastics in Dolphin Breath for the First Time
Each of the 11 dolphins sampled exhaled at least one suspected particle of microplastic, which researchers say “highlights ...
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UVic researcher creates simple way to test for microplastics
The way Motalebizadeh's kits identify microplastics is fairly simple. Using a syringe or pipette, users inject water into a ...
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Wild dolphins off US Southeast coast found with microplastics in their breath, study says
Researchers have found microplastics in the breath of bottlenose dolphins. It’s the first evidence that marine mammals could ...
Boiling Point: On bottlenose dolphins and the insidious presence of microplastics
Researchers found that air samples taken from the playful marine mammals’ blow holes contained plastic polymer fibers and ...
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Studies identify microplastics contamination along entire Brazilian coastline
Far from being just a figure of speech, the existence of microplastics spread throughout the ocean is unequivocal for ...
Microplastics and PFAS: Daphnia study finds combined impact results in greater environmental harm
The combined impact of so-called "forever chemicals" is more harmful to the environment than single chemicals in isolation, a ...
Biodegradable microplastics study helps quantify their climate change and ecotoxicity impacts
Over 20 million tons of plastic are estimated to end up in the environment every year, with much of it breaking down into ...
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Microplastics: The tiny threat and why recycling is not the best answer
If seeing is believing, then it may be hard for many of us to understand that when we take a breath, take a bite of food or ...