Typhoons vacuum microplastics from ocean and deposit them on land, study finds
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Typhoons vacuum microplastics from ocean and deposit them on land, study finds

Tropical storms such as typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are Earth's most powerful weather systems. Born over warm oceans, they travel thousands of kilometers to land, traversing waters now polluted with plastics, from coastal runoff to the vast oceanic garbage patches.