Wurm. "This makes them a promising, microplastic-free carrier system for crop protection agents and highlights their ...

Microplastics have emerged as a major environmental challenge due to their minute size, persistence, and toxicity. These tiny ...

a professor specializing in environmental and natural resource science at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, showed that samples of wastewater in Tokyo contained 420 microplastic ...

The team set out to fill in gaps about microplastic contamination in Oregon finfish and ... an ecotoxicologist and associate professor in Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences, ...

The team set out to fill in gaps about microplastic contamination in Oregon ... professor in Oregon State University's College of Agricultural Sciences, helped analyze and validate a subsample ...

4 Once in aquatic ecosystems, microplastics tend to remain and accumulate, resulting in a growing pervasiveness and steady increase in microplastic concentrations across the world’s rivers, lakes, and ...

Three percent of the larval fish caught for a 2017 study by researchers at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the University of Plymouth had eaten microplastic fibers. PHOTOGRAPHED AT MARINE ...

New research reveals significant microplastic contamination in commonly ... professor at Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences, the researchers confirmed a subset of ...

Tiny fragments found in the environment are increasing the rate of genetic transfer between bacteria 200-fold, Oxford ...

Now, an analysis from Chinese academics has indicated a correlation between microplastic accumulation ... The research, which was led by Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University and funded ...