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=====Freshwater’s Macro Microplastic Problem===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/freshwater-microplastics/ by Courtney Humphries 11/5/17 PBS] | |||
In the winter of 2014, Sherri “Sam” Mason, a chemist at the State University of New York at Fredonia, sent two of her undergraduate students out to the shore of Lake Erie near campus to volunteer to fillet the fish that sport fisherman caught. The deal: the students could keep the guts. They took the fish innards back to campus and painstakingly sorted through the contents. They were hunting for tiny particles of plastic that Mason and other researchers have shown are abundant in the waters of the Great Lakes. | |||
=====Microplastics found to permeate the ocean’s deepest points===== | =====Microplastics found to permeate the ocean’s deepest points===== | ||
[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/microplastic-pollution-is-found-in-deep-sea by Sarah Gibbens 6/12/18 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC] | [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/microplastic-pollution-is-found-in-deep-sea by Sarah Gibbens 6/12/18 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC] | ||
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In Microplastics, a Reporter Sees the Big Picture
By Nina Agrawal 25/04/2025 The New York Times
As a health reporter covering chronic diseases for The New York Times, I often get ideas for articles from new medical research. And as someone who grew up near the ocean, I have long been aware of the vast amounts of plastic we as a society use and throw away — and the detrimental effects that such waste can have on the environment.
So in February, when I came across a study about the buildup of microplastics inside of human brains and other tissue, I was immediately curious.
In the study, researchers at the University of New Mexico described a novel way to identify and measure the amount of microplastics inside human bodies. They also showed that over time, as the amount of plastic in the environment has increased, so too has the level of microplastics in our brains.
