#Microplastics

Rising temperatures drive a quarter of recent growth in resistant Salmonella genes, while microplastics create biofilms that speed horizontal transfer of resistance. New studies link these environmental factors to the accelerating superbug threat.…

Rising temperatures drive a quarter of recent growth in resistant Salmonella genes, while microplastics create biofilms that speed horizontal transfer of resistance. New studies link these environmental factors to the accelerating superbug threat.…

Researchers created a special kind of algae that can grab microscopic plastic pollution out of water almost like a magnet. The algae produce limonene, an orange-scented oil that helps them bind to water-repelling microplastics, forming easy-to-remove…

Climate scientists have discovered that microplastics and nanoplastics are helping to drive global warming by absorbing sunlight and radiation in the atmosphere.

From Nypost RSS Feed: Bryan Johnson boasts about health achievement for his balls: ‘This should not be possible’

From Time RSS Feed: There Are Microplastics In the Air, How Worried Should You Be?

Microplastics absolutely saturate the Earth’s environment, and that’s probably not a good thing unless you’re looking for a sediment marker for the Anthropocene period. On the oth…

There's more bad news about microplastics. We already know they pose a risk to health and can pollute ecosystems, but now researchers have discovered that tiny plastic particles drifting in Earth's atmosphere could be a significant contributor to global…

A new Nature Climate Change study suggests airborne microplastics -- especially darker and colored particles -- are likely contributing to atmospheric warming by absorbing more heat than they reflect.…

From Gizmodo RSS Feed: Scientists Identify Another Contributor to Global Warming—and It’s Everywhere

As rain falls, lurking within stormwater runoff are hidden microplastics, polluting the water sources they drain into. Even though microplastics originate in urban environments such as cities, existing data sets focus on marine and coastal areas.…

From Nypost RSS Feed: Hotel guests vow never to eat free breakfast again after learning how buffet scrambled eggs are made: ‘What the f- -k is that?’

From Indianexpress RSS Feed: Can your fatty liver be the result of using microwave-safe boxes and bottled water?

From Reddit - r/everythingscience: Researchers detect microplastics in fish larvae shortly after hatching

From Phys.org: Microplastics have been found to interact with the gut microbiome. Here's what health effects they might have

Microplastics are floating through the atmosphere and spreading across the globe, but their true origins have been misunderstood. New research shows land sources emit over 20 times more microplastic particles into the air than the ocean, challenging…

From Nrdc RSS Feed: NRDC Launches “Microplastics Are Micromonsters” to Combat Growing Human Health Threat

The EPA proposed to include microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a list of contaminants in drinking water for the first time, a step that could lead to limits on those substances for water utilities.

Tiny plastic particles aren’t just choking oceans and cities—they’re quietly infiltrating forests too.