Microplastics, a serious threat to marine life created as plastic litter in oceans breaks into smaller bits, are traveling farther than originally believed. A new study at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science found that microplastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters are swept up and carried on the wind to far-flung parts of the world. The minuscule fragments can stay airborne […]
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