Microplastics found in freshly fallen snow in Sierra Nevada

A weather story from Florida, reported by Florida Phoenix.

Weather · Florida · October 31, 2026

From Florida Phoenix

Microplastics are everywhere — including in Nevada’s snowpack. After years of skiing on freshly fallen snow in remote locations across the Sierra Nevada, Aleksandra Karapetrov — an environmental toxicologist at the University of California, Riverside — wondered how pristine the snow really was.

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