Recently, a handful of more in-depth studies have documented a range of plastic impacts on birds; these were harmful, but not ...

Mark Rowe reports on the failure to agree on an international treaty to limit plastic pollution and what our best hopes are ...

Researchers looked at samples from a field in Hartwood, North Lanarkshire, included in a UK-wide sewage sludge experiment ...

Tap water and even bottled water contain microplastics. Installing a high-quality filter, such as a reverse osmosis system or ...

In terms of the level of exposure we could be talking about here, the team estimated that each bag could transfer about 7,500 ...

Plastic pollution has been highlighted as an environmental issue for several years. But experts are now researching whether it poses a potential danger to our health. Microplastics specifically are ...

Plastics revolutionized medicine. But what we once saw as miraculous has now become a silent threat—one we can no longer ...

Microplastics are floating in the air around us, surging through rivers and streams and burrowing deep into soils. And now, a ...

Boston University researchers discovered that microplastics bolster bacteria's antibiotic resistance. The tiny plastic fragments, omnipresent on Earth, facilitate bacterial biofilm creation, thwarting ...

In a startling discovery, a team of Boston University researchers found that bacteria exposed to microplastics became ...

"More studies are needed to fully understand the risk." Scientists make alarming discovery about health risks for people ...