Microplastics: the invisible threat we breathe

It is time to reduce air pollution by harmful particles to health The plastic, symbol of modernity and convenience has also become one of the greatest environmental and public health challenges of our time. fragmented by sun, attribute and time, it becomes microscopic particles — the so-called microplastics (less than 5 millimetres) and nanoplastics (less than 1 micrometres, or μm) — which are now everywhere: in oceans, soil, food, and, as they …

A new study brings new knowledge on the distribution of microplastics in the ocean. In recent months, several scientific researches have shown the omnipresence of this pollutionOutside the Philippines, plastic particles have been found up to 6.8 kilometres deep in the Mariana pit.The result of ten years of data collected from the world's oceans to estimate the extent of plastic pollution in the marine environment is published in the journal "Nat…

A recent study has revealed a mechanism so far little known by which vast quantities of microplastics are being transported from the coasts to the abyssal depths of the oceans: the rapid underwater avalanches, scientifically called turbidity currents. This research, published in the prestigious journal Environmental Science and Technology, sheds light on how these powerful underwater flows, capable of reaching surprising speeds of up to eight me…