Airborne microplastics could be making climate change worse

Microplastic particles flowing through Earth’s atmosphere may be quietly driving up global temperatures, a new study suggests. Microplastics and nanoplastics—tiny bits of broken-down plastic pollution—litter the planet’s rivers, oceans, land and air. But until now, researchers weren’t sure what effect all those plastic particles were having on an already warming climate. A new study led…

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‘They came to kill us’: royal commission hears horrific accounts of antisemitism faced by Jewish children in Australia | Royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion

Jewish children in Australia face antisemitic abuse at school, see swastikas daubed on walls and witness classmates perform Nazi salutes: they live with antisemitism “all day, every day”, a Sydney Jewish mother has told a royal commission hearing. The woman, known as Dina before the commission, said Australia had become a more hostile, more dangerous…

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