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A new study has revealed that these lakes are also contaminated by microplastics, tiny pieces of plastic that can harm the environment and health.

Coral on the Great Barrier Reef has regrown strongly after the big losses of 2016 and 2017, when water temperatures were significantly above the long-term average. While this is good news, it's largely luck. The reef experienced mass bleaching in 2020 and 2022, but temperatures cooled just in time to prevent extensive coral deaths.

Tourists acting as citizen scientists have helped a research team detect microplastics on remote Arctic beaches. The global scale of plastic production means that these tiny fragments of plastic are now ubiquitous, and scientists fear that ocean currents will cause plastic to accumulate in the Arctic, damaging ecosystems. But our knowledge of the scale and type of plastic pollution in the Arctic is incomplete.

In the face of global warming and other environmental changes, corals in the Atlantic Ocean have declined precipitously in recent years, while corals in the Pacific and Indian Oceans are faring better.

Microplastics, which are tiny particles produced when plastics weather and fragment, pose an increasing threat to ecosystems and human health

Researchers have discovered that hand washing can significantly reduce the number of fibers shed when compared to machine washing.

Airborne microplastics indoors also pose a threat to humans, which inhale thousands of these particles each year, according to the study.

The frequency and intensity of marine heat waves are increasing due to ocean warming, which is wreaking havoc on coral reefs.

How does sustainability interact and affect all areas of life and the world? Throughout September, we're going to search for answers to building a sustainable faith, environment, society and economy.

According to a study participated by the UN, an estimated 4.5 tons of tobacco filters are discarded annually, and many of them wind up in the water with fatal results.