Microscopic fibers fall from the sky in the Rocky Mountains
Mount Elbert, in the Rocky Mountains.
Photograph: Alamy
(The Guardian - August 2019,)
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Plastic was the furthest thing from Gregory Wetherbee’s mind when he began analyzing rainwater samples collected from the Rocky Mountains. “I guess I expected to see mostly soil and mineral particles,” said the US Geological Survey researcher. Instead, he found multicolored microscopic plastic fibers.
The discovery raises new questions about the amount of plastic waste permeating the air, water, and soil virtually everywhere on Earth. |
A fellow researcher (Sherri Mason) said It’s impossible to trace the tiny pieces back to their sources, Mason said, but almost anything that’s made of plastic could be shedding particles into the atmosphere. (This story reported in The Guardian 2019)
These, the tiniest particles of plastic, have long found their way into the human food chain, with unpredictable results for the future health of humanity. |
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PLASTIC
Plastic is taking over our environment - it is in our food chain;
- our marine life eats plastic and then starves to death;
- our birds fill themselves up with plastic instead of food;
- our oceans are polluted so badly they may never recover.
We have let this happen. Now people are fighting to undo the damage caused by plastic.
Plastic bottles, and plastic bags - only use what we really need - and recycle what we can.
Plastic is taking over our environment - it is in our food chain;
- our marine life eats plastic and then starves to death;
- our birds fill themselves up with plastic instead of food;
- our oceans are polluted so badly they may never recover.
We have let this happen. Now people are fighting to undo the damage caused by plastic.
Plastic bottles, and plastic bags - only use what we really need - and recycle what we can.
Get rid of 'single use' plastic bags - tell our Supermarkets...
The Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.
As such, it charts a new course in the global climate effort.
The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
People in every country need to join in the fight against climate change. Everyone is affected, or will be affected, by these dangers to our planet.
The Paris Agreement brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries to do so.
As such, it charts a new course in the global climate effort.
The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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