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A new study highlights how a combination of environmental stressors -- namely plastic pollution and seawater flooding -- can increase the threats faced by plants in some of the planet's critical ...
Every egg case examined contained plastic particles, raising urgent questions about how pollution may be affecting sharks ...
Facing multiple lawsuits, Dow requests an “unprecedented” permit amendment to authorize its discharge of polyethylene pellets ...
The Walking Mountains’ Sustainable Film Series continues on Tuesday, March 3rd with a free screening of ‘Ripples of Plastic’ ...
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Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...
When we become physicians, our first act is to take the oath “First, do no harm,” one of the guiding principles for everyone in health care. But if we were doing something every day that causes harm ...
Two of the planet’s more pressing environmental stressors have the potential to alter the growth and reproductive output of plants found right along the world’s coastlines, a new study suggests. The ...
A new review published in Frontiers in Science is calling for urgent action to avoid irreversible ecological damage by stemming the tide of microplastics entering the environment. Climate change ...