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 ...

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.

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

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the U.S. government and consumers to buy plastic drinking straws, pushing back efforts by his predecessor to phase out ...

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

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 ...