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Micro & Nanoplastics

Environment
Same Soil, Same Plastic, Higher Risk: What Fragmentation Does to a Safety Threshold
Imagine a field that has been tested. Someone takes soil cores, measures the microplastic in them, compares the result against the concentration at which harm is expected, and finds the field is…
By Andreja Jezernik1w ago5 min read
Environment
Even Checking 75% of the Particles Rarely Reproduces a Sample's Real Polymer Mix
A tray of particles sits under an infrared microscope. Each one has been picked out of seawater, or a sediment core, or the gut of a fish, and each one has to be interrogated separately: a spectrum…
By Oli Kotyk1w ago5 min read
Environment
Arctic Sea Ice Holds Nanoplastics and Releases Back While It Is Still Freezing
Pull a litre of seawater from beneath the ice north of Svalbard and hold it up to the light. It looks like the cleanest water anywhere on the planet, and by most measures it is. What it also carries,…
By Andreja Jezernik4w ago6 min read