Researchers have made micro plastic measurements in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. In the first 200 meters of the water layer, they estimate that there are approximately 12 to 21 million ...

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 ...

It’s unclear exactly what microplastics do to the body, but doctors agree it’s best to minimize your risks by reducing exposure ...

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

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

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 ...

Microplastics are building up in human brains, blood, reproductive organs, and more. A new study suggests you ingest more ...

There’s no way to completely avoid microplastics. The good news is that there are steps you can take to reduce your ...

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

Achieving near-total plastic circularity is not only feasible, it is the most cost-effective and humane path forward in a ...

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