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For the first time plastic particles have been found in human blood. A paper published by authors from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the open access journal Environment International on March 24 reports measurable levels in the blood of 17 out of 22 healthy volunteers.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends that the U.S. establish a nationally coordinated and expanded monitoring system to track plastic pollution in order to understand the scale and sources of the U.S. plastic waste problem, set reduction and management priorities, and measure progress in addressing it.

By using synthetic biology, scientists are working to isolate and cultivate strains of coral that can naturally withstand higher sea surface temperatures associated with climate change.

A report by FAO’s Global Soil Partnership and its Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, and the European Commission presents the state of knowledge on soil biodiversity, the threats to it, and the solutions that soil biodiversity can provide to problems in different fields.