Tag Archives: microplastic

Alarming discovery in Antarctica – penguins bathe in water with microplastics. How to fight the omnipresent particles?

Recent studies reveal that plastic particles have reached even the most remote ecosystems on Earth. [...]

Alicja Bar

Rivers as potential macroplastic shredders

In an October issue of Water Matters, we featured a newly published article by Polish [...]

Anna Zielonka, Maciej Liro

Abyss – a planet above the abyss (2)

"Chemosynthesis on geothermal chimneys is a breakthrough in terms of how we think about life, [...]

Przemysław Trześniowski

Microplastics in the clouds. Air contaminated with plastics

Microplastics in the clouds. Air contaminated with plastics. Japanese scientists have discovered microplastics in clouds [...]

Agata Pavlinec

Microplastics in the Great Lakes – 89 percent. water samples exceed safety levels

Microplastics in the Great Lakes have become a serious environmental problem in recent years. The [...]

Iwona Szyprowska-Głodzik

EC concludes review of plastic pollution policies in Europe

The European Commission has summarized a review of plastic pollution policies in Europe. The results [...]

Marta Saracyn

Contamination of water with plastic bottles

Every minute, one million plastic bottles are purchased around the world. As many as 91% [...]

Aneta Błędowska

Is microplastic a threat to the efficiency of wastewater treatment technology?

Microplastics are small plastic particles, less than 5 mm in size, that have a significant [...]

Edyta Łaskawiec

What is hidden in the snow?

Once we get the winter fluff, then in the media there are messages "under no [...]

Agnieszka Hobot