How your car sheds microplastics into the ocean thousands of miles away
New research reveals how roads channel microplastics from car tires and brake pads to remote ocean habitats.
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Plastic, plastic everywhere – airborne microplastics are settling into the most remote corners of the globe
Researchers are uncovering how microplastic particles are carried in wind, rain and snow to remote regions of our planet.
How much microplastic are we actually breathing in? Here’s what we do and still don’t know
Estimates vary as scientists don’t have universal standards for researching microplastics.
Microplastics: 77% more found in River Thames during lockdown may be due to discarded face masks and PPE – research shows
Researchers took samples of the River Thames for two years to track levels of microplastics.
‘Everywhere we looked we found evidence’: the godfather of microplastics on 20 years of pollution research and the fight for global action
Since coining the term microplastics 20 years ago on May 7 2004, Richard Thompson reflects on the progress being made to halt plastic pollution.
Hundreds of millions of microplastic particles could be flowing into UK rivers, hidden in raw sewage
The amount of microplastics in the environment is being significantly underestimated, research shows.
Bottle‑fed babies may consume millions of microplastic particles, our research suggests
Shaking polypropylene bottles and washing them with very hot water can release millions of tiny plastic particles. Here are four ways to reduce exposure.
Chewing gum: another way for microplastics to enter your body?
Natural and synthetic chewing gum release microplastics. But there is still no evidence that they cause harm.
Seafloor currents sweep microplastics into deep‑sea hotspots of ocean life
Here’s how microplastics from your clothes end up in the deep sea.
Microplastics: we’ve found startling quantities in the ice algae that are essential for all Arctic marine life
Arctic sea ice algae contaminated with microplastics have serious consequences for ecosystems and the climate.
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