The cocktail of chemical pollution that pervades the planet now threatens the stability of global ecosystems upon which humanity depends, scientists have said.
Plastics are of particularly high concern, they said, along with 350,000 synthetic chemicals including pesticides, industrial compounds and antibiotics.
The study concludes that chemical pollution has crossed a “planetary boundary”, the point at which human-made changes to the Earth push it outside the stable environment of the last 10,000 years.
Par @dpcarrington Environment editor qui nous donne le lien vers la publication scientifique " Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities " Environ. Sci. Technol. 2022, Linn Persson , Bethanie M. Carney Almroth & al. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04158
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