The sampling was conducted throughout the spring at Tahoe Keys, a popular boating resort; Emerald Bay State Park, where boat access is limited, and at three stormwater outfalls into Lake Tahoe. The work was done in collaboration with the nonprofit League to Save Lake Tahoe's citizen science ...
Unlike many freshwater systems, the wastewater produced in the Tahoe Basin is piped out and does not return to the lake. Wastewater is the main source of microplastics in most freshwater systems, with microfibers—small bits of fiber from laundered clothes that find their way back towater syste...
Prior research has shown that microplastics are nearly everywhere, found on mountaintops,remote islands, in the upper atmosphere and the depths of the world's oceans. They have also been found in every organ in the human body. In a recent discovery, scientists found that the average person con...
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