When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere.” Large piles of plastic trash are not the only hazard in contemporary ...

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying ...

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

But if some of it does end up in the ocean, it will be far less harmful, and possibly even beneficial, compared to current plastic waste. A paper describing the research was published in the ...

A new study finds microplastics in nearly every organ of stranded sea turtles, including their reproductive systems.

It's impossible to be in the dark about the scourge of microplastics, but new light has been shone on how they end up in the ...

The Peril of Microplastics Microplastics are tiny pollutants ranging from 1 micron to less than 5 millimeters. They are now ...

Scientific studies on nine major waterways reveal an 'alarming' pollution by small particles. For the first time, a bacterium ...

Last August, two high schoolers from the San Francisco Bay Area packed up a rental water pump and headed to Grand Teton ...

DUMAGUETE CITY – Marine Conservation Philippines (MCP), a non-government organization (NGO) based in Negros Oriental, has ...

Marine biologist Richard Thompson was out looking at barnacles in tide pools one morning in 1993 when he started noticing ...

For years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s ...