Small plastic particles alter neuron growth, suggesting that particle size may be just as important as the amount of plastic ...

In 10 minutes, volunteers collected nearly 700 nurdles at Rotary Park in Carlsbad earlier this month. Nurdles are tiny, pre-production plastic pellets about the size of a lentil or a fish egg, and ...

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last September, Jace Tunnell discovered a layer of tiny round plastic pellets covering a beach on Padre Island, ...

Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. It can obstruct, perforate or twist their airways and gastrointestinal tracts. Now new research shows it takes just 6 pieces of ingested rubber the size of a pencil ...

A creative solution for plastic pollution may be hiding in the Swiss Alps and the Arctic. These chilly environments house tons of microbes with unique traits, as scientists have discovered in recent ...