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Microplastics in Our Waterways, the Fish We Eat, in Our Blood and Reproductive Organs

Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America 2024
Pauline Chinn

Summary

Researchers documenting microplastic contamination in Hawaii found these particles present in local waterways and fish species, and detected them in human blood and reproductive organs, underscoring that even remote island ecosystems are not spared from global plastic pollution.

Body Systems

Hawaiʻi is a remote archipelago, not visited by outside nations until 1788. But...

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