Sand is Getting Hotter, Thanks to Plastic

Have you ever gone to the beach and had to awkwardly hop along the sand and take refuge under umbrellas due to the hot sand beneath your feet? It is safe to say that nobody enjoys doing that and so the last thing we would want is for the sand to get even hotter, right? Dr Jennifer Lavers, an ecotoxicologist from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, has conducted a study and found that the presence of microplastics increases sand temperatures by around...