EXAMPLE POST: Microplastics Circulating through the Biospheres
CNN news article: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/world/atmospheric-plastics-study-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html PNAS research paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/16/e2020719118 The news article I chose from CNN, titled “Microplastics in our air 'spiral the globe' in a cycle of pollution, study finds” and published in April 2021, covered a research paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States of America (PNAS) that was published earlier this year. The paper, titled “Constraining the atmospheric limb of the plastic cycle,” concerned the transport and deposition rates of microplastics (MPs) from the hydrosphere and geosphere into the atmosphere. According to an article from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), MPs are defined as “small plastic pieces less than five millimeters long which [could] be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life.” Upon first reading the news article, I was impressed overall with how...