Media
Documentaries, shorts, and new articles featuring EBPL research and scientists
Videos and Interactive Websites
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Documentary: OVERFLOW
Produced and directed by Nyima Ming |
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Where are atmospheric microplastics coming from? Watch this video produced by seeker to learn more
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Podcasts
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Wyatt Archer chats with Dr. Janice Brahney about dust, phosphorus, lakes, and plastic |
Quirks and Quarks: CBC Radio
Tons of microplastic is being thrown into the atmosphere from roads, oceans, and fields April 16, 2021 |
Big Picture Science
Janice Brahney/Airborne Plastic, July 20, 2020 |
Select articles
After They Are Gone: The state of the Illecilewaet Glacier and what will happen after it melts away
Josh Piercey, Coast Mountain News, Jan 16, 2023 |
Salt Lake City's efforts to fight pollution face a new challenge: Toxic Dust
Evan Bush, NBC News, Dec 7, 2022 *featuring Molly Blakowski, PhD candidate |
Great Salt Lake "not that far off" from an ecosystem collapse: Toxic dust storms, die-offs loom
Erich Schank, Salon, July 29, 2022 *featuring Molly Blakowski, PhD candidate |
Hazardous metals aren't only in Great Salt Lake's dust they're in the ecosystem too
Carter Williams, Standard Examiner, June 3, 2022 |
The didymo dilemma
Bowman Leigh, Montana Free Press, April 3, 2022 *Featuring MS student Lindsay Capito |
Slow Motion Disaster: Receding Glaciers Open Space for Invading Algae
Lael Gilbert, USU Land and Environment, March 03, 2021 |
Plastic is falling from the sky. But where's it coming form?
Matt Simon, WIRED, April 13, 2021 |
Airborne dust may spur toxic algae blooms on remote Minnesota lakes
Greg Stanley, Star Tribune. July 6, 2020 |
Microplastics have moved into virtually every crevice on Earth
Laura Parker, National Geographic August 7, 2020 |
You're probably inhaling microplastics right now
Janice Brahney, The New York Times, Opinion, June 25, 2020 |
From national parks to the deep sea, plastic pollution is showing up wherever scientists look
John Metcalfe, The Washington Post, June 14, 2020 |
Thousands of tons of microplastics are falling from the sky
Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, June 11, 2020 |
Plastic Rain is the New Acid Rain
Matt Simon, WIRED, June 11, 2020 |
Where's Airborne Microplastics? Everywhere, Scientists Find
John Schwartz, The New York Times, June 11, 2020 |
Monitoring uncovers mysterious phosphorus pollution
Janet Pelley, Chemical and Engineering News, ACS, March 23, 2016. |
Snowpack dust is trending upward
John Peel, Durango Herald, April 7, 2014 |
Blowin' in the Wind: More and More Sickening Dust
Tom Yulsman, Discover, June 18, 2013 |
American West Becoming Increasingly Dusty
Ker Than, National Geographic, June 12, 2013 |
Dust storms are on the rise in the American West
Annalee Newitz, Gizmodo, June 10, 2013 |