With at-home testing for microplastics on the rise, Clare Vooght decided to test her own blood, with surprising results ...

Inhalable microplastics threaten air quality and public health in Indian cities, exacerbating pollution's severe impact on ...

In the realm of horror, it was hard to beat the headlines last February that you were carrying around the equivalent of a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics in your brain.

We have a few more answers about the "astronomically higher" levels of microplastics in Cleveland's drinking water source, ...

Researchers at the University of Bonn aim to improve the cleanliness of wastewater. Water released from washing machines is ...

Tropical storms such as typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are Earth's most powerful weather systems. Born over warm oceans, ...

Plastic gets into the Great Lakes in a variety of ways. Boaters may chuck their refuse overboard, but more likely it blows ...

New research reveals inhalable microplastics, previously overlooked, are worsening air quality in Indian cities and posing alarming health risks.

Scientists discovered that crickets that were fed microplastics grew in size by a staggering 25 times over a seven-week ...

Scientists are hard at work trying to assess the scale of our microplastic pollution problem and the likely health impacts.

Researchers have mapped the molecular changes that unfold as sunlight causes plastics to leach dissolved organic matter, findings that could reshape understanding of ecosystem health, water quality, ...

The carbon cycle in our oceans is critical to the balance of life in ocean waters and for reducing carbon in the atmosphere, ...