Researchers used Hurricane Larry to prove that microplastics in the ocean can be swept inland as air pollution
Anna Ryan, a 24-year-old master’s student at Dalhousie University, examines samples of microplastics she collected during Hurricane Larry in September 2021. (Eric Woolliscroft/CBC – image credit) As Hurricane Larry ravaged Newfoundland in 2021, university students from Halifax headed to a rural area to find out if the ocean could release microplastics into the atmosphere and … Read more