Some researchers have estimated that people consume between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles each year. If we add how ...

Microplastics are hindering photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert energy from the sun into the fruit and ...

With recent studies revealing the harmful and worrying health effects of microplastics, it's more important than ever to use ...

Every tool had to be sterile. And every instrument—scalpel, suture, gown, drape, and glove—was often plastic. Plastics revolutionized medicine. Disposable syringes, IV bags, surgical gloves ...

What's worse is that many of these medical plastics aren't biodegradable. This means they can persist in landfills or oceans ...

As government regulators focused on reigning in air pollution, companies were busy generating new sources of pollution, including plastics and PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals. PFAS ...

Since plastic doesn’t biodegrade, it continues to break down into smaller and smaller particles—enter micro- and nanoplastics, whose size can range from less than 5 millimeters to as small as ...

IF you drink from a plastic water bottle or eat leftovers from plastic containers, you might want to think again. There’s a growing body of evidence to suggest that microplastics – which ...

Microplastics have been found in human blood, semen, breast milk, placental tissue and bone marrow, but their presence in the human brain is particularly "troubling", wrote Ben Spencer, science ...

This furthers what we already know: it's important to reduce plastic consumption and use at every level—particularly with regard to anything that touches what you eat and drink. As such ...

Scientists uncover alarming levels of microplastics in human brain tissue, raising concerns about their potential role in neurological health.

Share on Pinterest A sediment sample, right, is displayed on the computer screen as Shelly Moore, left, executive director of Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research uses a stereo scope to ...