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In a study published in 2020, Janice Brahney, Utah State University associate professor in the Department of Watershed Sciences, made a startling discovery: microplastic particles are widespread in the Earth’s ....
KSL TV BLACKSMITH FORK RIVER When watershed scientist Janice Brahney and grad student Macy Gustavus go for a hike to take water samples, even in the most remote places, they re always confident they ll find what they re looking for. Yeah, we find plastic in pretty much all of our water samples, Gustavus said, if not all of our water samples. Brahney used words like alarming and shocking as she described her ongoing research project. An associate professor at Utah State University, she s looking for tiny particles of microplastics in the air we breathe and the water we drink. We re finding plastics everywhere we look, Brahney said, which is really concerning. ....