Microplastics are in everything we use, but how are we exposed, and what harm do they cause to us? Eyewitness News spoke to an expert who explained the details.

Experts at leading health care conferences last month called for further research into the health effects of microplastics ...

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

As HHS secretary, RFK Jr. has limited power to regulate how microplastics enter the food supply. He can also boost research ...

Recent research shows microplastics make up about 0.5 percent of our brains, says French plastics expert Professor Nathalie ...

Wear and tear on plastic products releases small to nearly invisible plastic particles, which could impact people's health ...

According to a recent study, there’s roughly a plastic spoon’s worth of plastics in our brains — an amount that has only ...

# While the jury is still out, according to some scientists, on the extent of harm posed by microplastics, the negative impact on human health of some of the chemicals used to manufacture plastics has ...

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

Learn more about the research project that’s helping experts analyze the nanoplastics in the human body.

The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus—just the ...

New research by Queen’s University Belfast has found that chewing gum can release over a quarter of a million microplastics ...