Investigation into plastic pollution moves inland
New research highlights the increasing threat of microplastics to global farming and food production.
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News tagged with microplastics
Fish in a major South African river are full of microplastics
We are living in the plastic age. Plastics are literally everywhere: clothes, furniture, computers, phones and more contain plastic materials. It's no wonder, then, that the food we eat, the water we drink and even the air ...
Ecology
Jul 25, 2022
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Microplastics pass through fish, altering nutrient metabolism
When Dong-Fang Deng and her students make feed for the fish they raise at UWM's School of Freshwater Sciences, they often use ground fishmeal—dried fish parts from fisheries or wild catch—as the protein source.
Plants & Animals
Jul 25, 2022
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Final destination deep sea: Microplastics' impact on ocean floor even greater than assumed
Senckenberg researchers Serena Abel and Angelika Brandt, together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute—Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Goethe University in Frankfurt, have investigated ...
Environment
Jul 12, 2022
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First long-term evidence of microplastic pollution from deep water layers of the open ocean
For the first time, scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) analyzed a long-term sample series on microplastic pollution in the Northeast Atlantic from 2000 m water depth with respect ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 05, 2022
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Interaction between nanoplastics and pectin, a water-soluble polysaccharide
Microplastics are known to collect in ecosystems and nanoplastics occur from the breaking down of microplastics. Nanoplastics are plastic particles of sizes less than 100 nm and when they are in water, they are dispersed ...
Biochemistry
Jun 27, 2022
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Hitchhiking viruses can survive on microplastics in freshwater
Scientists have proven for the first time that viruses can survive and remain infectious by binding themselves to plastics in freshwater—raising concerns about the potential impact on human health.
Environment
Jun 27, 2022
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Microplastics might be entering marine food webs from the bottom up
Microplastics—tiny pieces of plastic less than five millimetres in size—have been found in marine and freshwater animals ranging from tiny zooplankton to large whales.
Environment
Jun 27, 2022
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UM study finds microplastic pollution in Flathead Lake
They're in our oceans and rivers. They're in the food we eat and the water we drink. They've even been detected inside the human body. They're called microplastics—particles of plastic so small they can't be seen by the ...
Environment
Jun 23, 2022
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Shedding light on the impact of microplastics on lentil seedling growth
Microplastic pollution is known to negatively impact seed germination and seedling growth. Although some studies have demonstrated the effects of microplastics on seed germination, the impact of microplastics on the internal ...
Biochemistry
Jun 23, 2022
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