Scientists reviewed 7,000 studies on microplastics. Their alarming conclusion puts humanity on notice
It's been 20 years since a paper in the journal Science showed the environmental accumulation of tiny plastic fragments and ...
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Rutgers researchers are exploring the impact of microplastics on the digestive system
The university received a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, which will fund the five-year study.
A possible explanation for the 'missing plastic problem': New detection technique finds microplastics in coral skeletons
Researchers from Japan and Thailand investigating microplastics in coral have found that all three parts of the coral anatomy ...
7,000 Microplastics Studies Reveal the Massive Scope of the Problem
It’s been 20 years since a paper in the journal Science showed the environmental accumulation of tiny plastic fragments and ...
The Cost of Avoiding Microplastics
As it stands, though, individuals are left to mediate their own relationship to plastic, in a world where plastic is the ...
Study shows alarming cost of failing to act now on plastic pollution
Even if the world stopped producing new plastic, existing waste will continue to break down into tiny particles, doubling the pollution, a review of two decades of research warns ...
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What scientists have learned from 20 years of microplastics research
Twenty years ago, a team of U.K. scientists sounded the alarm on a then-underappreciated problem: the breakdown of plastic ...
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Rutgers Gets $3.2M to Study Micronanoplastics in the Digestive System
Rutgers University received a $3.2 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the impact of ...
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U. researchers awarded $3.2 million to investigate health impact of micronanoplastics
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Study shows alarming cost of failing to act now on plastic pollution
As existing plastic waste continues to break down into ... and they have even been found in the air. However, the long-term health effects of exposure to microplastics remain unclear.
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Rutgers Receives $3.2 Million from NIH to Study Micronanoplastics in the Digestive System
Rutgers received a $3.2 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the impact of micronanoplastics ...
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Scientists Who First Identified Threat of Microplastics Say World Must Now Act
During the 20 years since our first study, the amount of plastic in our oceans has increased by around 50%, only further ...