Microplastics, tiny shreds of human trash, are there as well, and in such abundance that larval fish are eating them in their first days of life. For newborn fish, to eat is to live another day ...

When you hear the word microplastics, you probably think of fish and bottled water. But a new study reveals just how common ...

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Wastewater treatment fails to kill several human pathogens when they hide out on microplastics in the water, reports a study ...

“We’ve been exploring what the dolphins have been ingesting for the past couple of years, finding microplastics in their stomach contents and prey fish.” As the dolphins eat microplastic-contaminated ...

eat the same species of fish and live along the coast, she added. “This is an important finding but is rather unsurprising owing to the ubiquity of microplastics in the environment,” Merrill said.

In the lab, it chomped on the kinds of plastics used in water and pop bottles, breaking them down and then gobbling up the extremely tiny remaining pieces of microplastics. Their study ...

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We can learn from nature to engineer sustainable solutions," says Ludmilla Aristilde, who led a scientific team identifying how to eliminate the tiniest pieces of plastic from waterways.