Dynamic eco-corona formation drives the environmental fate of micro- and nanoplastics

Microplastic Fate and Impacts in the Environment

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Microplastic pollution has been documented across virtually every ecosystem on Earth, from sea surfaces to deep sediments, polar regions to tropical rivers, and inside a wide range of organisms spanning multiple trophic levels. This comprehensive environmental presence confirms that microplastics pose systemic risks to biodiversity and human health through multiple exposure pathways.

Microplastic Fate and Impacts in the Environment

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Microplastic pollution has been documented across virtually every ecosystem on Earth — from ocean surfaces to deep-sea floors, polar regions to tropical soils, and in organisms spanning the full breadth of the food web. This pervasive distribution confirms that microplastic exposure is now universal and that understanding long-term fate and biological impacts is one of the most pressing environmental health challenges of our time.

Fate factors for microplastics in the marine environment

Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment

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Researchers quantified marine-atmospheric microplastic fluxes and found that between 0.013 and 25 million metric tons of micro- and nanoplastics may be transported through the atmosphere and deposited into oceans annually. They propose a global observation strategy with harmonized sampling methods to reduce the high uncertainty in these estimates.

Micro- and Nanoplastics in Environment: Degradation, Detection, and Ecological Impact

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Researchers review how micro- and nanoplastics degrade, spread, and accumulate across ecosystems, synthesizing evidence of ecological harm at multiple levels of the food chain and warning that their near-invisible size makes them especially difficult to monitor and regulate.