Microplastics are “one of the greatest manmade disasters of our time,” according to the Natural History Museum in London. That’s bad news, given they are also everywhere; in tap water, the food you buy, the clothes you wear and the air you breathe. The largest microplastics can be se...
The universal use of plastics means that microplastics are widespread throughout the environment. Scientists have found them in our food, water, and even the air. Researchers are still trying to determine the scale of this issue, but these tiny particles really add up. Australian scientists ...
Microplastics are in the food we eat, even raw fruits and vegetables, and have been found in both tap and bottled water. California recently became the first government entity in the world to test its drinking water for microplastics, while tests on more than 250 bottles of water purchased ...
While it’s clear that scientists will have to conduct more research to find out the exact level of risk that microplastics pose to our health, taking steps to avoid them certainly doesn’t hurt. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to avoid microplastics altogether, but there are definitely steps y...
It can take as little as 10 minutes, and you’ll be part of a growing effort to save our marine environments from microplastics.
start talking about disease and health, there’s more power to implement change. Microplastics can actually move germs around, and these germs end up in our water and our food.”– Karen Shapiro, infectious disease expert and associate professor in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine (9...
as everything from nurdle spills at sea to a nylon shirt tossed into the trash eventually becomes microplastic. These tiny particles are insidious new pollutants colonizing the planet, from food to water to the air itself. Scientists are just beginning to uncover how microplastics might threaten he...
sunlight, wind, and waves, which break down the plastic into small particles called microplastics. Microplastics has been found in every corner of our planet, from the heights of Mount Everest to the deepest ocean trough. Microplastics are even found in municipal drinking water systems and in the...
SEE ALSO:A simple and surprising way to rid your water of most microplastics "For me… protecting our waterways is something of great importance and that I hold near and dear," he said. When he stumbled upon a University of Toronto website examining h...
microplastics. While it's true that crustaceans were more likely to die when exposed to increasing doses of microplastics, the effect on reproduction was more complex. The number of offspring increased with extremely high doses, but decreased at lower doses, similar to what is seen in the ...