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Topic: Microplastics

Executive director of Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research uses a stereo scope to examine a sediment sample to identify microplastics within a sample in Long Beach on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Microplastics in brains are accumulating

Matthew Rozsa
Hands holding microplastics on the beach (Getty Images/doble-d)

Microplastics linked to organ lesions

Matthew Rozsa
A heap of disposable water bottles next to a reusable water bottle (Getty Images/Richard Drury)

Is bottled water actually "all natural?"

Joseph Winters - Grist
Galapagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) atop rock beside sea (Getty Images/David Madison)

Microplastics reach Galápagos penguins

Matthew Rozsa
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(Getty/TeerawatWinyarat)

The potential dangers of bottled water

Joseph Winters - Grist
Biodegradable trash paper and plastic spread out (Getty Images/Tatiana Maksimova)

Can bioplastics fix our plastic problem?

Matthew Rozsa
Storm Cloud Over A Farm (Getty Images/sakchai vongsasiripat)

Microplastics are in the clouds

Matthew Rozsa
Fresh food and vegetables at a Farmer's Market (Rodger Shagam/Getty Images)

Microplastics appear on farms, too

Branaavan Sivarajah, Jesse Vermaire - The Conversation
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Plastic bag drifting in the botnia Gulf on May 3, 2023 near Pietarsaari, during the late spring as the sea-ice is slowly melting. (OLIVIER MORIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Hope for the plastic pollution crisis

Matthew Rozsa
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Microplastics are in your laundry

Saqib Rahim - Grist
Pregnant Belly | Microplastics (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Nanoplastics pose threat to fetuses

Nicole Karlis
Fish and plastic (Getty Images/Sergi Escribano)

Plastic pollution is filtering into fish

Matthew Rozsa
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Seagull carrying a plastic cup (Getty Images/Robert Pleško)

Birds are eating way too much plastic

Troy Farah
Egyptian volunteers arrange sacks with plastic waste to build the world's largest plastic pyramid on September 17, 2022 in Giza, Egypt. (Fadel Dawod/Getty Images)

The plastic waste pyramid controversy

Joseph Winters - Grist
Plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in sea (Rosemary Calvert)

Ocean plastic is a climate problem

Joseph Winters - Grist
Glossy glass balls showing world under microscope (Getty Images/OsakaWayne Studios)

The mysterious microplastics in our soil

Martin Henseler - The Conversation
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Close view on the green young corn and some fertilizers (Getty Images/i-Stockr)

The chemicals destroying human health

Lela Nargi - FoodPrint
Palau Malakal Island and Koror (Getty Images/Norimoto)

Microplastic pollution knows no bounds

Matthew Rozsa
Large recycled plastic fish sculpture in Helsingor situated infront of the Kronborg Castle in Helsingor in Denmark (Getty Images/James D. Morgan)

UN recognizes plastic pollution crisis

Eric Schank
Close up of red plastic granules (Getty Images/LukaSvetic)

There's probably plastic in your blood

Matthew Rozsa
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Microplastic | Stomache Pain (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are microplastics giving us IBS?

Matthew Rozsa
Microplastic in spoon (Getty Images/Olena Sakhnenko)

Microplastics: An explainer

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic garbage lying on the Aegean sea beach near Athens on June 26, 2018 , Greece. (Getty/Milos Bicanski)

How plastic is destroying Earth

Nicole Karlis
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

The plastic toxicity knowledge gap

Nicole Karlis
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