Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

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.

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 ...

The levels of plastic in the human brain have increased 50% increase since 2016, according to a new preprint study not yet peer-reviewed.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

Scientists discover the first rocks fused with human-made plastic. A team of researchers published a new study detailing the first discovery of rocks combined with human-made plastics across ...

The levels of plastic in the human brain have increased 50% increase since 2016, according to a new preprint study not yet peer-reviewed.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 values your feedback 1.

When you drink water from a plastic bottle, you’re literally swallowing plastic. An average liter of bottled water contains some 240,000 “nanoplastics” — particles that measure under one micrometer.

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 ...

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.