Etiket: microplastic
Microplastic particles travel to the placenta, study confirms
American researchers found, when analyzing around sixty placenta samples, that each had been contaminated by microplastics, reports a study recently published by the journal Toxicological Sciences. Posted at 7:47 a.m.…
Ghanaian Yvette Tetteh completes the first swim down the Volta River to document microplastic pollution
She will have crawled 450 kilometers over 40 days, six days a week, with regular 20-minute breaks to take water samples. Objective: to measure the pollution constituted by plastic microfibers…
89th Acfas Congress | Microplastic on our plates?
Could the microplastic ingested by seafood in the ocean be transmitted to humans who taste a starter of scallops, for example? This is the question that researchers tried to answer…
Arctic | Belugas victims of microplastic pollutants
(Vancouver) Hundreds of thousands of waste plastic microbeads have been found in the prey of belugas, proving that these pollutants reach even whales swimming in the most remote waters of…