A number of studies, for example, have documented microplastics in rain falling all over the world — even in remote, unpopulated regions. For one 2020 analysis in the journal Science ...

However, this isn’t the first time the weather has gone a bit ... flightless animals have been known to fall from the sky. The bugs strewn across the road. Reuters In February, a remote ...

A 2020 study found over 1,000 metric tons of plastic particles falling onto ... down from the sky. Another study from 2023 highlighted even more trouble with plastics in the rain, further ...

When meteorologists are keeping an eye on the sky, their radars can detect many different things. Meteorologist Derek Witt explains this awesome capability in this "Weather Word of the Week." ...