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The #Mediterranean: Not just the most overfished #sea in the world, but also one of the most threatened.🚨
From #plastic #pollution in its deepest trenches, illegal #fishing practices being the norm, to 730 tonnes of plastic entering its water daily, and soaring levels of toxic #microplastics.
The Mediterranean is in crisis, and it needs its #protection urgently.
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Join @postcarboninstitute and frontline advocates to discuss the microplastic pollution crisis and learn what we – individually and collectively – can do about it.
Register now for the free webinar on June 24 & receive the recording with a donation of your choice amount: resilience.org/stories/2025-05…
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Troubled Waters: How Microplastics Are Impacting Our Oceans and Our Health - resilience
Microplastic pollution is poisoning nearly everything on the planet—from the deepest parts of the ocean to inside the cells of living beings.Daniel Lerch (Resilience.org)
The Human #Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of #Microplastics, New #Research Suggests
source: smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…
#Microplastic concentrations were also three to five times higher in the brains of patients with #dementia, compared to cognitively normal brains. It’s not clear whether microplastics may cause or contribute to dementia, nor whether dementia-induced changes to the brain might allow more microplastics to enter.
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Free to read online, my #solarpunk story IT'S IN THE BLOOD in @ReckoningMag
reckoning.press/its-in-the-blo…
#SolarpunkSunday #climatefiction #microplastics #bookstadon
It’s in the Blood | Reckoning
The days were more dear now. She could give minutes to the snapdragons, pruning their spent blooms and freeing the stems to flower again.Susan Kaye Quinn (Reckoning)