A study exploring this was published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials and reported in ScienceDirect. Researchers used ...

While MPs have already been detected in human reproductive systems, the study, published in the Journal of the Endocrine ...

The minuscule spheres, typically less than 5 millimeters in diameter, are the basic building blocks of nearly all plastic ...

A new study has, for the first time, recorded and measured just how fast microplastics move through the gut passage of a key ...

Microplastics seem to be everywhere – in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in ...

Swap your plastic tools for these silicone cooking utensils that won’t leach microplastics into your food. These 9 ...

Microplastics are impairing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide, thereby potentially contributing to climate change, according to a recent study.

Researchers tracked microplastic beads and nylon fibres as they were eaten and expelled by copepods under laboratory ...

Plastic is a durable tough material that has been adopted for use in countless products. That widespread use has also led to ...

Microplastics range from about the width of a bacterium to several millimeters across. Nanoplastics are smaller still. These ...

Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink ...

Chances are sushi aficionados have left a restaurant take-out in tow and with a handful of adorable, but environmentally ...