Microplastics can act as ice nucleating particles, potentially altering cloud formation, precipitation, and even global ...

Microplastics cause clouds to form in places where they wouldn't otherwise, which is likely to have knock-on effects on the ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics have become an alarming presence in our everyday lives, showing up in food, water, and even ...

Clouds affect Earth’s weather and climate in many ways. New research suggests that the presence of microplastic particles may affect weather and climate by producing clouds in conditions where they ...

The Charleston Waterkeeper conducts tests for microplastics by collecting water samples, separating the particles, and examining them under a microscope. "Here in Charleston we see a lot of blue ...

Scientists have spotted microplastics, tiny pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters, in some of the most pristine environments on Earth, from the depths of the Mariana Trench to the snow on Mt.

The amount of sunlight reflected depends on how much liquid water vs. ice a cloud contains. If microplastics increase the presence of ice particles in clouds compared with liquid water droplets ...

Wastewater treatment fails to kill several human pathogens when they hide out on microplastics in the water, according to a new study.

Microplastics are invisible but omnipresent.

water, soil and food chain. Every day humans ingest, inhale or otherwise come in contact with microplastics, which are less than five millimetres and mostly invisible to the naked eye. "A human in ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers ...