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Climate change accelerates microplastic breakdown and spread across ecosystems, increasing toxicity and threatening marine life, with some areas seeing up to 40 times more pollution, scientists say.
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How extreme weather is making plastic pollution more mobile, more persistent and more hazardous
Microplastics are already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up, they are becoming a much bigger and more hazardous problem, according to a new analysis
Plastic pollution is worsened by warming climate and must be stemmed, researchers warn
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 plastic—spreading them considerable distances, and increasing exposure and impact within the environment.
Plastic pollution is worsened by warming climate and must be stemmed, researchers warn
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 plastic-spreading them considerable distances, and increasing exposure and impact within the environment.
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