Sentences with phrase «microplastics affect»

At NILU and Akvaplan - niva, the scientists are looking into both what happens to microplastics in the environment and how microplastics affect the organisms that eat it.

It is unclear how microplastics affect the organisms that eat them.

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Microplastics can also interact with soil fauna, affecting their health and soil functions.

Earthworms, for example, make their burrows differently when microplastics are present in the soil, affecting the earthworm's fitness and the soil condition.

This means they could spread microplastic pollution throughout the marine ecosystem, by carrying microplastics from the surface down to deeper waters, affecting deep - sea organisms.

We know very little about how the environmental conditions in the Arctic may affect the degradation of plastic to microplastics, and how vulnerable Arctic species are to this type of contamination.

At least one recent study, authored by one of Thompson's former graduate students and colleagues, including Thompson, showed that a type of filter feeder called a lugworm was adversely affected when exposed to sand that had microplastics that contained common chemical pollutants.

«These microplastics absorb pollutants, are eaten by organisms, and enter the food chain, potentially affecting human health.»

Microplastic pollution appears to affect creatures at the bottom of the food web the most.