Recognising how microplastics find their way into packaging and the consequences they pose is essential for creating ...

The findings are part of a growing body of work showing that even in far-flung parts of the Arctic, plastic pollution is ...

Are we being microdosed with microplastics? Tiny pieces of plastic are turning up at the dinner table, and while the ...

We're seeing things like endocrine disruption, which affects reproduction, and bioaccumulation, which is when plastic in the food-supply chain accumulates in the digestive tract and can cause ...

Micro and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can ... alone confirming the risks of polycontamination of our food chain. A companion study in Microplastics journal showed similar effects ...

There often are tiny bits of plastic in the fish and shellfish we ... and because their characteristics may change as creatures along the food chain consume, metabolize, or excrete them.

Would you put down your cozy cup of tea if you knew that you were drinking billions of tiny pieces of plastic? A study published in November investigated the release of micro and nanoplastics from ...

Why researchers want to study plastics in farm fields Micro-particles of plastic that come from items ... evidence related to the land-based food chain “is certainly raising alarm,” said ...

If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily surface slicks in which many ocean fish come of age are ...

Micro-particles of plastic that come from items like clothes ... Despite “significant research gaps,” the evidence related to ...