Microplastics and nanoplastics are increasingly recognized as pervasive environmental contaminants that accumulate in animals ...

It is hard to believe that life can survive in Antarctica. Despite its harsh conditions, hardy flora and fauna do just that and have done so for thousands of years. Unfortunately, with the ...

Microplastics, tiny plastic particles pervasive in agricultural environments, interact with and disrupt the microbial ecosystem in the rumen—the first stomach chamber of cattle, reveals an ...

The study of environmental microbiomes has taken on new urgency in light of the pervasive presence of microplastics in natural ecosystems. The ...

The field of research focuses on the pervasive issue of plastic and microplastic contamination within global food systems. As ...