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«The great spatial heterogeneity of microplastics at large and mesoscales makes it difficult to extrapolate local monitoring data to larger areas,» Nerland explains.

Not exact matches

According to news sources, such as the BBC, researchers at State University of New York in Fredonia found microplastic particles in nearly all of 250 bottled waters bought in nine different countries.

Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Microbeads, Microplastics, Sherri Mason, St. Luke's Church, The State University of New York at Fredonia

At the moment, however, there is a lack of standardized methods for determining microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems in order to produce an accurate assessment of the situation.

The minimum average microplastics pollution was found in the stretch between Basel and Mainz (202,900 particles per square kilometer), a medium average at Bad Honnef, Köln - Porz and Leverkusen (714,053) and the highest average in the Rhine - Ruhr metropolitan area (2,333,665).

A peak microplastics concentration was measured at Rees on the Nederhijn, where 3.9 million plastic items per square kilometer (or 21,839 particles per 1000 cubic meters) were found in a single water sample.

If adults were to consume sea salt at the recommended nutritional level for the seasoning, they could potentially ingest 1,000 microplastic particles every year from that source.

«The Rhine's microplastics concentrations are thus among the highest so far studied worldwide,» says biologist Professor Patricia Holm from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel.

The microplastic levels used in the two papers approximate those found at highly contaminated sites.

A separate report, from Mark Anthony Browne on work performed at Plymouth University, shows that ingesting microplastic can also reduce the health of lugworms by delivering harmful chemicals, including hydrocarbons, antimicrobials, and flame retardants, to them.

When comparing between four size classes, two microplastic < 4.75 mm and meso - and macroplastic > 4.75 mm, a tremendous loss of microplastics is observed from the sea surface compared to expected rates of fragmentation, suggesting there are mechanisms at play that remove < 4.75 mm plastic particles from the ocean surface.

«Microplastics are ubiquitous in the world's oceans and they have been found in both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans and their adjacent seas, in both coastal areas and offshore,» says Inger Lise Nerland, a PhD candidate at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA).

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.

Richard C. Thompson is a professor of marine biology at Plymouth University in the UK who has conducted some of the pioneering studies on microplastics in the marine environment.

Outi Setälä, the first author of the study and a senior researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute, says that scientists have known since the 1980s that zooplankton will eat microplastics.

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.

Eating lots of these animals tainted at this level could add 100,000 particles of microplastics to the human diet each year, Shi's team estimates.

They also found that fish that consume large quantities of microplastics are «smaller, slower, and more stupid» (and die at twice the rate of the others when exposed to predators) than ones living in clean water and, therefore, on healthier diets.

February 8 Maritime History of the Channel Islands Told Through Shipwreck Bert Ho and Carol Linteau March 8 White Shark Nurseries in the Southern California Bight Chris Lowe April 12 Island Scrub Jay Connection to Native Oak Populations Mario Pesendorfer September 13 Impacts of Microplastic Debris on Coastal Ecosystems Clare Steele October 11 Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Lone Woman at the Crossroads Susan Morris November 8 Sea Cow Discovery on Santa Rosa Island John Hoffman

February 8 Maritime History of the Channel Islands Told Through Shipwreck Bert Ho and Carol Linteau March 8 White Shark Nurseries in the Southern California Bight Chris Lowe April 12 Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Lone Woman at the Crossroads Susan Morris September 13 Impacts of Microplastic Debris on Coastal Ecosystems Clare Steele October 11 Island Scrub Jay Connection to Native Oak Populations Mario Pesendorfer November 8 Sea Cow Discovery on Santa Rosa Island John Hoffman

During the Winter Workspace, Tubbs will be using the microbial leather to cast river rocks found at the Wave Hill site while laminating microplastic between the layers.

Requests the Executive Director to present the study on microplastics for the consideration of the United Nations Environment Assembly at its second session.

Emphasizes that further urgent action is needed to address the challenges posed by marine plastic debris and microplastics, by addressing such materials at source, by reducing pollution through improved waste management practices and by cleaning up existing debris and litter;

This year the Earth Day Network is focusing on plastic pollution, especially looking at how microplastic pollution gets into our drinking water supply.

«This accumulations of microplastics is being ingested by the largest of the filter feeders right down to the smaller organisims, the microorganisms at the bottom of the food chain.»

Plastic never breaks down — but depending on environmental conditions it will break up at different rates into microplastics.

«This is evidence we are dealing with a truly global contaminant,» Chelsea Rochman, a microplastic researcher at the University of Toronto, told Earther in an email.

Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research surveyed five regions in the Arctic Ocean and found up to 12,000 pieces of microplastics per liter of sea ice.

That's one of the main takeaways from an analysis of 43 studies looking at the effects of microplastics on aquatic life.

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

Dr. Katrin Schuhen at the University of Koblenz - Landau Organic and ecological chemistry department, the group works on the next generation technologies needed to treat microplastics and pharmaceuticals in wastewater.

A new study conducted by researchers at the State University of New York Fredonia has found that brands of sea salt sold in China contain high amounts of microplastics.