Scientists Say Engineered Soil Microbes Could Anchor One Health in the Anthropocene
A new opinion paper argues that microbiome functional diversity is the missing biological link between soil health and One Health, ...
Tag: microplastics
Multi-Level Preprocessing Framework Sharpens FT-IR Imaging of Microplastics
A new multi-level preprocessing and clustering framework for FT-IR spectral imaging achieved perfect classification of four common microplastic polymers while ...
Industrial microplastics blanket sediments of Swedish coastal archipelago
Sediment sampling beside a Swedish petrochemical complex reveals that industrial primary microplastics, dominated by polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride, contaminate every ...
Low-Dose PVC Microplastics Boost Pak Choi Seedlings, High Doses Trigger Stress
A controlled experiment on Brassica chinensis seedlings found that 0.5 percent PVC microplastics in soil promoted growth through lateral root ...
Review separates maternal microplastic transfer from offspring harm
A critical review finds limited evidence that microplastics pass directly from exposed aquatic parents to embryos while warning that offspring ...
Roman-Era Aqueduct Hides a Brand-New Species of Woodlouse in Spain
A new species of tiny woodlouse has been discovered living on rotten wood in a Roman-era underground aqueduct beneath the ...
Chitosan-MOF Hydrogel Beads Capture Polystyrene Microplastics in Under an Hour
Researchers have developed recoverable chitosan-based hydrogel beads embedded with a zirconium metal-organic framework and reduced graphene oxide that remove nearly ...
Where Does the Fluorine Go? New Study Tracks PFAS Destruction Down to the Atom
The significance of this study becomes clearer when viewed against the broader architecture of PFAS remediation, which increasingly relies on ...
Weathered Microplastics in Himalayan Watershed Soil Act as Pollutant Carriers
A new study of soil from India's Sukhna Lake watershed shows that environmentally weathered microplastics are oxidized, mineral-coated, and contaminated ...
Micro- and Nanoplastics May Disrupt Neural Crest Development, Review Proposes Testable Model
Micro- and nanoplastics have now been detected in some of the most intimate environments the human body contains: the placenta, ...
AI Audit of 950 Studies Reveals Most Microplastic Exposure Data Fall Short for Health Risk Assessment
The scale of the new analysis is what sets it apart from earlier efforts to grade the microplastics literature. Previous ...
Bold Trout Eat More Plastic: Personality Shapes Microplastic Risk in Stream Fish
A new agent-based model shows that dominant and bold rainbow trout ingest disproportionately more microplastics and suffer distinct behavioural costs, ...
Microplastics Are Not Chemically Inert: Water Turns Their Surfaces Into Radical Factories
A Nature study shows that commodity microplastics spontaneously generate hydroxyl radicals in water through interfacial electrostatics and partial solvation, challenging ...
Plastic Additives in Estuaries: Microplastic Chemical Pollution Under Review
A new review finds that chemical additives released from degrading plastics can serve as indicators of microplastic contamination in estuarine ...
Metal-free click polymerizations rewrite the rules of step-growth polymerization
A new review shows how thiol-yne and amino-yne click polymerizations overcome classical step-growth constraints and enable photodegradable precision polyketones, while ...
Microplastics Act as Trojan Horses for Rare Heavy Metals from Nuclear Reactors in Crops
A new review reveals that microplastics released from nuclear power plants act as Trojan horses, adsorbing rare heavy metals like ...
Microplastics Turn Chemically Reactive in Water, Raising New Health Concerns
A new Nature study shows that microplastic surfaces become chemically reactive in water, generating tissue-damaging radicals that may explain links ...
Fifty Years of Protecting Children from Environmental Hazards Set the Stage for the Next Half-Century
A new Pediatric Research commentary by Richard J. Jackson argues that fifty years of progress in children's environmental health, from ...
Plastic Tea Bags Shed Thousands of Microplastic Particles Into Every Cup, Study Finds
A new study in npj Science of Food finds that plastic tea bags release up to 2,498 microplastic particles per ...
AI turns 26 sediment samples into a map of an estuary’s entire plastic legacy
Researchers have developed NIXVEGS, an open-source machine learning tool that predicts microplastic concentrations across an entire Baltic estuary from just ...
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