The reported releases of microplastics ranged from a few hundred particles to over 8 million particles per liter in a new ...

Over the last 20 years, scientists have come to recognize microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) as a growing form of ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

Chinese scientists have detected plastic particle clouds hovering in the air over two large cities indicating that these ...

A study published this week delves into the mystery of how the plastic objects we interact with daily shed tiny particles that creep into our bodies, brains, and guts. While the scientific focus has ...

One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses ...

Tiny plastic particles are accumulating in human tissues at increasingly higher levels, a new study published in the journal Nature Medicine on Monday shows. The study, led by Matthew Campen of the ...

New research finds that people are inhaling thousands of particles of plastic that "enter deep into our respiratory system" Getty Images Humans inhale nearly 70,000 pieces of plastic a day — and ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Rutgers University found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water. The study was published Monday in the Proceedings of ...

A research team led by the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna has investigated a possible link between ...

* Plastic chopping boards can release over 70 million microplastic particles annually into food and wastewater * Microplastics are being detected in human blood and organs, raising serious //health ...