Researchers Make Disturbing Discovery After Analyzing Sand Along Popular Lake: 'It's Just Everywhere You Look'

Researchers make disturbing discovery after analyzing sand along popular lake: 'It's just everywhere you look'

Researchers working to understand microplastic pollution in Lake Champlain have sounded alarm bells about the ubiquity of the problem. What's happening? The team — from the State University of New York Plattsburgh, the University of Vermont, and the Lake Champlain Sea Grant program — is spending the summer collecting sand and analyzing the waste materials found in it, as Vermont Public reported. The goal is to find the source of the plastic that…

Fairfield to add microplastics to drinking water monitoring

FAIRFIELD — The city has been tapped to be part of the first phase of a pending statewide study on microplastics in drinking water.