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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have found evidence that marine mammals could be inhaling microplastics ... After examining the dishes under a microscope, the scientists found that each dolphin ...

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 ...

Wastewater treatment fails to kill several human pathogens when they hide out on microplastics in the water, reports a study led by Ingun Lund Witsø of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences ...