Microplastics are turning up in oceans, soil, drinking water, and human tissue. Learn where they come from, why they matter, ...

Fiddler crabs in Colombian mangroves swallow microplastics, concentrate them, and break them into smaller fragments during ...

I searched through my kitchen cabinets and found several surprising items that could be releasing microplastics into my food.

Particularly alarming for service members are studies showing that microplastics were present in 99% of post-mortem lung ...

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

We hear it more often now. Those tiny particles that scientists can't stop talking about. They're in our water, in our air, ...

Switching from plastic to glass food containers is an easy step to cut down on your microplastic exposure. But just because we hear that microplastics are everywhere, it doesn’t mean we can’t—and ...

Researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides in lettuce and human intestinal cells, raising new safety concerns about plastic pollution.

The biggest shifts appeared in Bacillota — a key digestive bacteria group — alongside metabolite patterns associated with depression and colorectal disease. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning ...

A recent University of Florida study found more than 1 trillion microplastics in Indian River Lagoon, raising health and ...

The researchers say the new carboxymethyl cellulose supramolecular plastic, dubbed CMCSP, is as strong as conventional ...