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Microplastic pollution is everywhere, even in the exhaled breath of dolphins – new research

  • Written by Leslie Hart, Associate Professor of Public Health, College of Charleston
Microplastic pollution is everywhere, even in the exhaled breath of dolphins – new researchMicroplastics are invisible but omnipresent.Musat/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One.

Tiny plastic pieces have spread all over the planet – on land, in the air and even in...

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