Could microplastics be fueling antibiotic resistance?
Boston researchers found that bacteria exposed to microplastics became resistant to multiple types of common antibiotics ...
New Aldi Specialbuys have dropped, from air fryers to beauty products
As a reminder, Aldi’s Specialbuys are an in-store-only affair, (the supermarket stopped stocking its products online in July ...
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Researchers Take Freshwater Approach to Plastics Pollution
The researchers will immerse plastic films in freshwater samples (taken from a canal in Lowell) and expose them to ...
How worried should we be about microplastics in our brains?
Microplastics have been found in human blood, semen, breast milk, placental tissue and bone marrow, but their presence in the ...
Microplastics may threaten global food supply by disrupting photosynthesis
A team of environmental researchers, Earth scientists and pollution specialists at Nanjing University, the Chinese Academy of ...
Scientists warn of serious risks swimming in the Great Lakes: “highest reported worldwide’
“Microplastics are reported to be present in sources of drinking water and in fish collected from the Great Lakes and their ...
Salt influx from land and sea spells 'double trouble' for drinking water
An influx of salt from both land and sea and a warming world are condemning the world's rivers, streams and estuaries to a ...
Plastics most prevalent in trash flows from Tijuana into US
According to Alter Terra statistics, by sheer volume, plastic bottles make up 41 percent of all the trash that flows in from ...
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A New Study Shows The Staggering Prevalence Of Microplastics Polluting The Waters Of Each Of The Great Lakes
Whether it’s in our seafood, the air we breathe, or even our own internal organs, microplastics have been a hot topic of ...