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A new study highlights how a combination of environmental stressors -- namely plastic pollution and seawater flooding -- can increase the threats faced by plants in some of the planet's critical ...

A new review published in Frontiers in Science is calling for urgent action to avoid irreversible ecological damage by stemming the tide of microplastics entering the environment. Climate change ...

The negative effects of plastic pollution are even more extensive than thought, with a new study finding that nano- and microplastics pose a serious risk to biodiversity, agricultural production, and ...

An awareness programme on plastic eradication was organized at the Government Science Degree College, Nagarkurnool, as part ...

The fact that plastics pollute the environment and generate problems has been well-researched in many areas. However, there is little information on the impacts of plastics on climate and biodiversity ...

Discover how a UCT-led study reveals the alarming rise of plastic bottles on the remote shores of Marion Island, highlighting ...

Two of the planet’s more pressing environmental stressors have the potential to alter the growth and reproductive output of plants found right along the world’s coastlines, a new study suggests. The ...

Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...