Microplastics might be affecting our weather, making it rain differently than before, according to a recent study by ...

The Ministry of Environment said on Tuesday that bottled spring water contains, on average, 1.32 pieces of microplastics per ...

About nine million tons of visible plastic trash enter oceans each year—then there’s the waste we can’t see. This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

The water samples collected in the gyre contained on average 0.62 micro-plastics per cubic meter of sea water, compared with an average of 0.19MP/m3 in other areas of open ocean, and 0.4MP/m3 in ...

Microplastics have been steadily increasing in freshwater environments for decades and are directly tied to rising global ...

sink deep into the ocean and can end up in plankton. Larger pieces, known as micro-plastics, float in a soup, suspended in water, and are eaten by fish. The fish then get eaten by "apex predators ...

“This is incredibly exciting, as up to now we have not had a tool for detecting plastics in coastal environments from space,” ...

Researchers have made micro plastic measurements in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. In the first 200 meters of the water layer, they estimate that there are approximately 12 to 21 million ...

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Scientists at Penn State University have discovered that microplastics found in clouds cause the water droplets to freeze at ...