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Microplastics Screening in Tigris River of Baghdad City/Iraq
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Researchers screened the Tigris River in Baghdad for microplastic contamination, documenting the presence, concentration, and characteristics of microplastics in a major urban river system in Iraq, adding to evidence that microplastic pollution is pervasive in freshwater environments across diverse geographic regions.
Microplastics are usually difficult to degrade or bioaccumulate, can transfer via the nutrition chain, and can at the latest be a risk to people's health, and are widely spread in aquatic environments including oceans, in lakes, in rivers, and even drinking...
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