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Honolulu Student Finds Fungi That Could Break Down Plastic and Sunscreen
What happens after pollution is pulled out of the ocean but remains trapped inside a filter? That question sent a Honolulu high school student from a homemade coconut-fiber experiment into a university laboratory, where researchers found fungi capable of breaking down plastic and chemical sunscreen. Vera Wang’s project produced another surprise along the way. Some…
Study Reveals Microplastics Buried in Pre-Industrial Sediment Layers
Microplastics are now so widespread that scientists routinely find them in oceans, polar snow, and even inside the human body. What researchers did not expect, however, was to find them in sediment layers that appear to predate the age of modern plastic production. Yet that is exactly what multiple recent studies have revealed. In lakes…