Fresh concerns about human health have been raised after researchers found that coastal communities with higher ...

Most of us spend a fair amount of time thinking about what we put into our bodies. The food we eat, the water we drink, the ...

Marine microplastics affect algae's ability to grow and photosynthesize. Researchers have now calculated what impact this has ...

Microplastics can lower your testosterone and may be interfering with you sexual health. Here's what the latest research says ...

We can't remove what we can't measure - and that's exactly the problem a $144 million program is built to solve.

Microplastics are everywhere -- even inside your body. It sounds scary, and it is. Just listen to Dr. Sheela Sathyanarayana with UW Medicine and Children’s Hospital: “You want to try to get it out, ...

A close-up of the tips of two fingers and a thumb covered in small pieces of plastic. Tiny, colorful plastic particles even smaller than the ones shown here get lofted into the atmosphere and may be ...

Microplastic particles flowing through Earth’s atmosphere may be quietly driving up global temperatures, a new study suggests. Microplastics and nanoplastics—tiny bits of broken-down plastic pollution ...

A surge in energy prices caused by the Iran war is rippling through global supply chains for common consumer goods, making materials like chemicals and plastics more expensive and pushing up ...

A closeup of gray and russet dots of microplastic on a round steel filtration screen. Microplastics on a filtration membrane at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in 2021. Accurate measurement ...

Micro(nano)plastics (MNPs) are pervasive environmental contaminants, yet their presence in human cardiac tissue and their potential contribution to myocardial fibrosis remain unclear. We investigated ...