Microplastic pollution rained down on Canada during a hurricane

In September 2021, Hurricane Larry pelted Newfoundland, in Canada, with sturdy winds and torrential rain. It additionally rained down microplastics — as much as 5 occasions as many particles fell on days in the course of the storm as these earlier than or after.

A hurricane’s impacts on microplastic deposition hadn’t been studied earlier than, says Anna Ryan at Dalhousie College in Halifax, Canada. She and her colleagues took…