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Microplastics are in the air we breathe and in Earth’s atmosphere, and they affect the climate

  • Written by: Laura Revell, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Physics, University of Canterbury
Microplastics are in the air we breathe and in Earth’s atmosphere, and they affect the climateGeography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Microplastics are found in the most remote places on land and in the ocean as well as in our food. Now severalstudies around the world have confirmed they are also present in the air we breathe.

In our research, published today, we investigated for the first time how airborne microplastics...

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