One of the major problems we (humanity) have miserably failed to address in the last few decades is plastic pollution. Last time I wrote about it (in April 2024), there was an active attempt to come up with an international treaty on reducing plastic waste, but this process failed to deliver and is now considered stuck. As the waste keeps piling up and we keep discovering new ways in which it harms our planetary environment, it's unfortunately time for another feature on this topic. This time the focus is on the ecological role of microplastics acting as a vector for all kinds of unwanted things.
The feature is out now:
Persistent plastic problems
Current Biology Volume 36, Issue 19, 5 October 2026, Pages R1005--R1007
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Plastic nanoparticles are known to penetrate into living cells.
(Image: Karimov Denis and Valova Iana/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).)
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