US EditionAir Bubbles on Plastics Release Microplastics Into Water
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Terrestrial microplastics have become the largest source of plastic particles in the atmosphere: the continental surface releases more than 600 trillion per year, a figure 20 times higher than that of the oceans, according to a new scientific study.
The spread of microplastics throughout the planet, until entering the human body, is a real problem. However, there are scientists who warn that some of these researches, which have had a lot of impact on the media, greatly exaggerate reality. The last example is a study published in Nature this Wednesday that concludes that theoretical measurements of the amount of microplastics that reach the atmosphere can be very oversized: between 100 and 1…
Microplastics are destroying marine life that helps the ocean absorb carbon dioxide, a process that plays a vital role in regulating Earth's temperature, while releasing greenhouse gases as they break down, according to new research. Over time, they have spread to almost every part of the planet. Researchers have found microplastics in the ocean depths, in lakes and rivers, in the air, on land, in Arctic ice, and in the human body. Their widespr…
One of the causes of marine water pollution is microplastics, because the substances they contain reduce the effectiveness of marine carbon absorption.
Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean
Microplastics (MPs) are global pollutants1, yet their atmospheric distribution is poorly understood2. Although atmospheric MP measurements have become more abundant, estimates of emissions into the atmosphere vary by orders of magnitude3,4. Here we compile a global atmospheric MPs dataset and compare it with size-aligned MP model simulations. Our model simulations show two to four orders of magnitude overestimation of the measured global median …
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