The tiny, minuscule plastics, known as microplastics, that are in the air we breathe, the food we consume, and everyday objects we use, such as plastic cutting boards, Tupperware, and even ...

But there should be broad agreement on one recent initiative: his joint announcement with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to confront microplastics contamination as a serious ...

While the amount of plastic in brains remains debatable, the situation is becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss.

After 20 years of sailing the world’s oceans to research the global scale of plastic pollution, it’s the ocean nanoplastics ...

In Brazil, scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology of São Paulo State University (ICT-UNESP) are working on a ...

Transparent plastics used in packaging have turbocharged profits and reshaped consumer culture — but at a heavy cost to our ...

These microplastics, as they’re known, have been found in many parts of the human body – including the lungs, placenta and ...

A New England Journal of Medicine study found microplastics embedded in the arterial plaque of 58% of patients tested, with ...

Those questions led us to approach this Nature issue with humility. We try to grapple with them all the time—MIT Technology ...

New research has found that moringa seeds could be an effective, natural solution for the removal of microplastics from ...

Public concern around this divisive trend has been reignited after a Sydney council announced plans to build new sports ...

Following years of research, study finds seeds are more than equal to chemical alternatives for water filtration ...