plastic in the mountains

A new study has uncovered nanoplastic pollution in some of the most remote high-altitude glaciers in the Alps, raising concerns about the far-reaching impact of plastic waste. The research, published in January 2025 by a team around Dušan Materić, Head of Research Group for Microplastics, Nanoplastics and Elements at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Leipzig (‘UFZ’), Germany, used […]