Plastic pollution affects marine ecosystems globally, with animals suffering from entanglement and ingestion of both large and small plastic debris. While microplastics have been widely studied, data on nanoplastics-particles under 1 um-has remained limited due to their minute size and analytical challenges. A 2020 expedition aboard the Dutch research vessel RV Pelagia, led by scientists f
You likely know that plastic pollution is a problem, with environmental experts saying that microplastics have now been found in even the world’s most remote water sources. However, biologists now..