Optical analysis and machine learning techniques can now readily detect microplastics in marine and freshwater environments using inexpensive porous metal substrates. Details of the method, developed ...

Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural environments in greater quantities than in urban locations, researchers ...

Microplastics consist of tiny pollutants that often elude detection, but scientists recently found that they can be snatched from the air by spiderwebs. Researchers at Germany's University of ...

Ambuj Tewari receives funding from NSF and NIH. The microplastics project is funded by the “Meet the Moment” initiative of the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Researchers in Xi’an found city air microplastics tripled after COVID-19, with masks and pollution driving fibers into lungs, ...

Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural environments in greater quantities than in urban locations, researchers say.Scientists led by the ...

A Northern Michigan environmental group is warning against the prevalence of microplastics in the Great Lakes, encouraging state leaders to take action before it’s too late. On average, humans ingest ...

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Mike Weisskopf leaned off a boat dock, bucket in hand, and scooped water from Wappoo Creek. Nearby, an empty plastic liquor bottle bobbed up and down. Weisskopf, a volunteer for Charleston Waterkeeper ...