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Great Lakes Microplastics Research Could Inform National and Global Policy

Microplastics are increasingly present in samples pulled from the Great Lakes. Researchers are working to understand them—and to remove them.

By Sarah Mattalian

People walk a beach along Lake Michigan in Whiting, Ind. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Diane Wilson holds a bottle with PVC plastic powder, a type of microplastic, collected in the Matagorda Bay system in December 2024. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Microplastics from Texas Bays Are Washed Out to Sea, New Study Says

By Dylan Baddour

Birders visit the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in Philadelphia in February. Credit: Kiley Bense/Inside Climate News

Microplastics Lurk in Freshwater Environments Across Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense

U.N. delegates follow the day's proceedings during the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee's third meeting to formulate an international legally binding plastics treaty in Nairobi, Kenya on Nov. 14, 2023. Credit: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

As Plastic Treaty Delegates Head to Canada, A Plea From the Arctic: Don’t Forget Vulnerable Indigenous Peoples

By James Bruggers

The ocean stores much of the emissions released by human activities, but it is reaching a tipping point, research shows. Credit: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

Singapore to Build World’s Largest Facility that Sucks Carbon From the Sea

By Kiley Price

A liter of bottled water may contain nearly a quarter million pieces of the smallest particles of plastic. Credit: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images

Diet for a Sick Planet: Studies Find More Plastic in Our Food and Bottled Water

By James Bruggers

Cubes of sorted compressed plastic bottles are seen at the recycling center at the Sile Integrated Waste Facility Center on March 12, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey. Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Who Said Recycling Was Green? It Makes Microplastics By the Ton

By James Bruggers

A plastic water bottle floats half submerged along the bank of the Tulpehocken Creek at Gring's Mill in Spring Township in Pennsylvania on March 4, 2021. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Microplastics Pervade Even Top-Quality Streams in Pennsylvania, Study Finds

By Jon Hurdle

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