Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural environments in greater quantities than in urban locations, researchers ...

This research adds to a mountain of evidence. Researchers discover invisible threat lurking at popular vacation destination: ...

The study said that once inhaled, microplastics and nanoplastics can carry additives, absorbed chemicals, and pathogens into ...

A new study from has overturned assumptions about airborne plastic pollution, finding that a rural woodland area recorded ...

Here, there and everywhere: Due to its minuscule size and its ease of scattering, glitter is more harmful than other sorts of microplastics. Glitter (Credit: Nika Akin / CC0 Public Domain) I’ve been ...

The world is in a "plastics crisis" amid concerns plastic production has risen more than 200 times since 1950 and will triple again by 2060, a report has warned. The report, published in the Lancet ...

Biological carbon pumping’ is a natural process by which an ocean transfers carbon from the atmosphere into the deep sea ...

In the vast cotton fields of Xinjiang, plastic film covering technology has been a weapon for increasing yield—it conserves ...

Recent studies have reported the discovery of microplastics and nanoplastics in various parts of the human body, arguing that ...

A new study has, for the first time, recorded and measured just how fast microplastics move through the gut passage of a key ...