In Amsterdam, common coots like this one build their nests out of plastic waste and other human-made materials. Auke-Florian Hiemstra. In 2021, Hiemstra and colleagues excavated a common coot ...

A study out of Hawaii has shown that tissues sampled [recently] had significantly higher concentrations of plastic particles in them than the tissues from just 10 years ago.

The levels of plastic in the human brain have increased 50% increase since 2016, according to a new preprint study not yet peer-reviewed. CNN Story by Sandee LaMotte, CNN ...

One of the hopes for bio-based plastics is that they could address plastic’s huge contribution to climate change. Right now more than 99 percent of polymers are made from petroleum sources. If ...

The number of tiny bits of plastic found in human brains increased dramatically between 2016 and 2024, ... "The lung's immune cells hate it and they try to clear it out," Miller said.

Researchers expected to find more plastic shards in the testicles of older men in the study, but that wasn’t the case, Campen said. “It seems that in peak reproductive years for men, which is ...

The panel “Taking Out the Trash: Solutions to plastic pollution” looked at how innovation is starting, just barely, to address the plastic problem. ... human-made fabrics into valuable forms.

(CNN) - Tiny pieces of plastic appear to be invading men. Microplastics and nanoplastics are found in human testicles at levels three times higher compared to animal testes or human placentas ...

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In that report, the consortium determined plastics are associated with harms to human health at every single stage of the plastic lifecycle. “Some microplastics are also airborne,” Landrigan said.