# Undercurrents 3.27.24 | Boiling Microplastics, Oil & Gas Gaslighting, Issues with Glyphosate, and Ridiculous Climate Bandaid Solutions

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Published: 2024-03-27T13:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Undercurrents is a podcast series from Nerdy About Nature where we discuss recent studies, reports and news from the world of environment, ecology and climate which all impact our understanding of the world and the way we relate to it. In other words, it’s all the unseen things that happen without much notice that impact the direction or flow of our society and the world we all share. This episodes topics: Boiling Microplastics: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00081 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2419556-boiling-tap-water-can-remove-80-per-cent-of-the-microplastics-in-it/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2366304-ingesting-microplastics-may-increase-fat-absorption-by-145-per-cent/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2420674-microplastics-linked-to-a-greater-risk-of-heart-attack-and-stroke/ Oil & Gas Gaslighting: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/04/exxon-chief-public-climate-failures https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/22/us-oil-company-exxonmobil-investors-climate-follow-this Glyphosate: https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-018-0184-7 https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/local-news/unbc-research-team-gets-15-million-to-study-glyphosate-8296613 https://www.evergreenalliance.ca/analysis/32/ Climate Bandaid Solutions: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL106132 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00119-3 Produced by Ross Reid Hosted by Ross Reid & Julia Huggins Nerdy About Nature is a passion project whose primary goal is to provide free access for all to education about this world so that people can enjoy it more, build connection and fall in love with it, and ultimately work in ways to steward it for future generations to enjoy. We do this through short and long form…

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