Microplastics found in freshly fallen snow in Sierra Nevada

Microplastics are everywhere — including in Nevada’s snowpack. After years of skiing on freshly fallen snow in remote locations across the Sierra Nevada, Aleksandra Karapetrov — an environmental toxicologist at the University of California, Riverside — wondered how pristine the snow really was. Over six months, Karapetrov and a team of University of California, Riverside […]