Coral reefs trap microplastics due to their mucus. Researchers confirmed that coral mucus acts as an adhesive.

Credit: Research paper While this foam won’t single-handedly solve our ocean plastic crisis, it represents a promising direction in environmental remediation. The challenge now lies in scaling ...

University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step ...

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

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...

Facts About Plastic Pollution and Microplastics Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our ...

A new study has found startling levels of microplastics in the human brain, raising more concerns over plastic pollution.

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

Plastic Odyssey is a global initiative dedicated to tackling plastic pollution in the world's most affected regions. Over the ...

President Trump prefers plastic over paper, when it comes to straws. With today's signing of an executive order President ...

In recent years, microplastics have been appearing more in human brains, University of New Mexico Health Sciences researchers discovered.