From garbage gyres that choke aquatic life to microplastics that accumulate in the human body, plastic pollution in the ocean is a huge problem. People are...
Groundbreaking Hunt to Check for Microplastics in Drinking Water
Photo: California will become the first state to test drinking water sources for microplastics, like the kinds captured in this...
Microplastics pollution is filtering up into the fish we eat
Photo: Fish and plastic (Getty Images/Sergi Escribano) Oysters, tuna and other wild-caught fish we eat often contain plastic As an agrarian...
Tracking microplastics ‘fingerprints’
Photo: Post storm debris made up mostly of plastics and vegetation is scattered across the high tide line in 2019....
Nanocellulose used to remove microplastics from water
Photo: A scanning electron microscope image shows microplastic particles (measuring 100 nanometers each) attached to the nanocellulose "mesh" VTT Technical...