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Scientists Detected Microplastics in Air Exhaled by Wild Dolphins


Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One.

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