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 ...

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.

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

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

Rutgers Health researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides ...

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

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