The Ubiquity of Plastic in Our Lives Plastic has become an inevitable part of modern life. If you look around, almost ...

Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching ...

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine analyzed artery-clogging plaques from over 250 patients and found ...

The smallest ones, called nano-plastics, sink deep into the ocean and can end up in plankton. Larger pieces, known as micro-plastics, float in a soup, suspended in water, and are eaten by fish.

The analysis from Oregon is the first of its kind in the region, and it shows that microplastics are widespread in edible ...

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 ...

In Finland’s freezing Arctic, lakes and rivers have nourished the lifeways of Indigenous Skolt Sámi communities for ...

A new study shows that microplastics are making their way into our brains, and that their concentrations are rising.

UAF scientists have found microplastics in all marine species they’ve studied so; new results show transfer from mother seals ...

Postmortem brain samples collected last year contain considerably more microplastics than similar samples collected nearly a ...