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How A Hurricane Delivered Nearly a Fifth of a North Carolina Site’s Annual Microplastic Fallout

A forested mountain stream can be far from busy roads and still receive plastic pollution from the air. A study in western North Carolina found that Hurricane Helene sharply increased the microplastics deposited at three monitoring sites. Universal-Sci Newsletter (100% free) Image Credit: Wirestock Creators via Shutterstock / HDR tune by Universal-Sci An experiment already underwayBefore Helene arrived, researchers were investigating how microp…

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