Every year, more than 1,000 tons of plastic rain down onto national parks and wilderness areas in the western U.S. In this week’s episode, we talk about where that plastic comes from, and we look for it in rain that falls on Washington, D.C.
Sources:
- What are microplastics?
- Marine debris fact sheet
- Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on aquatic organisms: a review
- Time to Safeguard the Future Generations from the Omnipresent Microplastics
- Microplastics and human health
- Synthetically engineered microbial scavengers for enhanced bioremediation
- Microplastics in the soil-groundwater environment: Aging, migration, and co-transport of contaminants - A critical review
- The potential effects of microplastics on human health: What is known and what is unknown
- A review on occurrence, characteristics, toxicology and treatment of nanoplastic waste in the environment
- Evidence from in vitro and in vivo studies on the potential health repercussions of micro- and nanoplastics
- Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain
- Plastic Rain: More Than 1,000 Tons Of Microplastic Rain Onto Western US
- Plastic rain in protected areas of the United States
- Microplastics are raining down from the sky
- Forget acid rain. Plastic rain is now falling across the U.S.
- It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains
- ‘It is raining plastic’: Scientists find colorful microplastic in rain
- Imari Walker on microplastics
- Quantification of Microplastics and Microfibers on U.S. National Park Beaches
- The microplastics crisis: you are the first responder
- In utero exposure to di-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate and duration of human pregnancy.
- Bisphenol A (BPA)
- Effects of the Endocrine-Disrupting Chemical DDT on Self-Renewal and Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells
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