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Microplastic Pollution in the Changing Climate
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This review examined how climate change is altering microplastic transport, distribution, and persistence — with warming oceans, intensified storms, glacial melt, and shifting wind patterns redistributing particles into previously uncontaminated remote regions. Climate change and microplastic pollution are not independent crises; their interaction means that as warming accelerates, plastic particles will penetrate deeper into food webs and human communities that currently have minimal exposure.
The rate of microplastic build-up in our environment is a major concern to all stakeholders in the pursuit of environmental sustainability. Microplastic can adsorb and harbour other pollutants from the environment making them more harmful to aquatic life when...
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