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Plastic rain, plastic rain

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This is a microplastic fiber found in dolphin breath, and it's 14 times smaller than a human hair. We found it by holding a petri dish over dolphins' blowholes so we can analyze what they breathe out.

Today, Explained

Plastic rain, plastic rain

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Ocean waves are basically plastic confetti machines, and they can launch 100,000 metric tons of plastic into the air every year.