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Microplastics: are they poisoning crops and jeopardising food production?

By Denis J. Murphy, Emeritus Professor of Biotechnology, University of South Wales

Microplastics are hindering photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert energy from the sun into the fruit and vegetables we eat. This threatens massive losses in crop and seafood production over the coming decades that could mean food shortages for hundreds of millions of people.

So concludes an alarming new study. The authors combined…

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