Scientists quantify exact amounts, types of plastics in snowfall By Jules Bernstein, UC Riverside For the first time, UC Riverside scientists have measured how much microplastic pollution falls on the Sierra Nevada during snowstorms and were surprised to find significant...
From the American Chemical Society: “Potentially Lethal Concentrations of 6PPD-Quinone Occur in Endangered Species Act Listed Aquatic Habitats of Central California” Environmental Science & Technology Letters Endangered coho salmon and steelhead trout live and spawn in habitats surrounded by human...
“Polluted water becomes polluted air, and air reaches everyone who breathes it, far beyond anyone who touches the water,” one UC San Diego researcher said. By Quinn Welsch, Courthouse News Service A report on the Tijuana River pollution crisis from...
Microplastics are a pervasive contaminant in the Truckee River, with concentrations surging nearly ten-fold from the fall to spring seasons. By Elyse DeFranco, Desert Research Institute The ubiquitous plastics of modern life are degrading into tiny fragments and littering Earth’s...
By modeling toxic diatoms and coastal processes, scientists have discovered the degree to which nutrients from Southern California’s densely populated coast affect these blooms. By Lisa S. Gardiner, EOS Single-celled algae within delicate glass-like needles, Pseudo-nitzschia diatoms may be tiny,...
