A new study finds that microplastic pollution reduces plant photosynthesis, threatening global food security and worsening ...

Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows microplastics are ...

ecosystem exposure is maximised because the particles are stored on the bed for weeks or months before they are flushed away by flooding. The river bed is the worst place for extended periods of ...

Microplastic accumulation in our waters ... The impact of microplastics on aquatic ecosystems is far-reaching and detrimental. Marine and freshwater organisms, ranging from tiny zooplankton ...

4 Once in aquatic ecosystems, microplastics tend to remain and accumulate, resulting in a growing pervasiveness and steady increase in microplastic concentrations across the world’s rivers ...

While the results only considered photosynthesis by excluding various factors affecting agricultural and fishery production, it has been assessed that there is confirmed evidence that microplastics ...

“The planet is under great threat from microplastics, and aquatic ecosystems are the first ... and environmental recycling, microplastic pollution is irreversible and escalating.” ...

In remote Antarctica, Colombian marine biologist Paulo Tigreros dips a net into the icy waters in his hunt for microplastics in what should be one of the best-preserved ecosystems in the world.