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Several of the strongest new studies describe a body that files microplastics away in the very cells meant to clear them, and the opening question of what that storage costs.
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The findings that stood out, and why the one that matters most is that our instruments have probably been undercounting the smallest particles all along.
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Micro and nanoplastics turning up in nearly every brain sample tested, new attention to the air we breathe, and the slow work of cleanup.
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A large group of papers about solutions: degradation, recycling, and bioplastics. And one heavily cited study finding that even the most ambitious commitments do not keep up.
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For years this was a marine science. The most cited papers in the founding corpus, and the 2020 study that made the human body something the field had to examine.
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