It's been 20 years since a paper in the journal Science showed the environmental accumulation of tiny plastic fragments and ...

It’s been 20 years since a paper in the journal Science showed the environmental accumulation of tiny plastic fragments and ...

Due to “the rapid increase in plastic production, the longevity of plastic, and the disposable nature of plastic items,” the ...

As it stands, though, individuals are left to mediate their own relationship to plastic, in a world where plastic is the ...

"Everywhere we look, we have found plastics. From remote locations across the globe to the inside our own bodies," Joel ...

The university received a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, which will fund the five-year study.

Even if the world stopped producing new plastic, existing waste will continue to break down into tiny particles, doubling the pollution, a review of two decades of research warns ...

Researchers found that the brain contained higher concentrations of plastic than the liver or kidneys, and that the amount of ...

Rutgers received a $3.2 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the impact of micronanoplastics ...

have infiltrated the air we breathe. A single-use plastic bag can take up to 1,000 years to degrade, and rather than disappearing entirely, it breaks down into micro- and nanoplastics that linger ...

Researchers from Japan and Thailand investigating microplastics in coral have found that all three parts of the coral anatomy ...

Micro- and nanoplastics are in our food, water and the air we breathe. They are showing up in our bodies, from testicles to brain matter. Now, UBC researchers have developed a low-cost, portable tool ...