Using cameras and artificial intelligence, the system tracks and calculates microplastic movement with high accuracy, within about 6% of manual measurements. This new, open-source technique, now ...

Microplastics are one of the concerning environmental pollutants because of their ubiquity. Their capability to adsorb other environmental pollutants increases the risk even further. Existing ...

The growing use of plastic-based practices in agriculture has led to a significant accumulation of plastic waste in soil. Microplastics (MPs) increasingly threaten soil health and fertility by ...

How far microplastics travel in the atmosphere depends crucially on particle shape, according to a recent study by scientists at the University of Vienna and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and ...

Fertilisers are a major source of microplastic pollution in agricultural soil, a long-running experiment in the UK has shown, and this pollution has increased dramatically in the past 50 years.