FIFA World Cup souvenir. A McDonald’s McChicken container from 1996. Decades-old plastic packaging. Look inside the nests of ...

By Liz Kimbrough In a lab in Türkiye, researcher Sedat Gündoğdu zooms in on the image of a small red fiber. For the first ...

Microplastics have been found in numerous organ systems and even in the human brain. It's impossible to avoid them altogether, but you can cut back, researchers say.

Writer Carolyn Kormann joins Morning Joe to discuss her recent piece for New York Magazine 'There's a Spoon's Worth of ...

It was a few years ago when scientists discovered microplastics in the human ... how plastic water bottles are the “biggest source [for microplastics] by far.” Therefore, should one make ...

Plastic Reflectic is an art installation made out of plastic rubbish collected from the ocean. The plastic is connected to underwater sensors which mirror human movement in front of the artwork.

It is designed to undercut the former administration’s 2022 initiative to phase out single ... problem: plastic pollution and its impact on all of us. Plastic is a human health crisis in the ...

The fragments of plastic themselves are pretty tiny, at less than 200 nanometers, or about 400 times smaller than the width of a human hair. "That's roughly the size of two COVID viruses side by ...

(CNN) – A new study found human brain samples contain an entire plastic spoon’s worth of nanoplastics. The study was published on Monday in the “Nature Medicine” journal. Researchers ...

BC's Philip Landrigan, M.D., and the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health present ... on track to treble by 2050. This plastic contains thousands of toxic and cancer-causing ...

Surprisingly, no single rat pack stood out ... plastic exposure was linked to a higher risk of heart failure. There are, however, some notable limitations to the study. Regarding the human ...