With microplastics and nanoplastics present all over the globe, Northeast Ohio researchers overview human and animal studies ...

How many tiny pieces of plastic are currently inside your body?No one disputes that these mostly invisible pieces of plastic ...

Over the past few years, studies have suggested that plastic particles from bottles, food packaging and waste have been ...

Tiny plastic particles may be quietly reshaping microbial life in drinking water systems. Nanoplastics already raise fears because people can ingest them directly. Now scientists say these tiny partic ...

For years, scientists suspected that waves breaking on plastic-littered seas were a major source of the tiny fragments now ...

Rice is also a hotspot for microplastics. A University of Queensland study found that for every half cup of rice, there are 3 ...

A research team led by the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna has investigated a possible link between the rising number of people with chronic inflammatory bowel disease and ...

A new study estimates that adults inhale up to 68,000 microplastic particles per day inside homes and cars, with most particles small enough to reach deep into the lungs. (Image by Nadiia Yakovenko, ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating through urban air, far exceeding earlier estimates. Road dust and rainfall ...

Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

Micro- and nanoplastics are increasingly detected in human tissues, including the brain, and experimental evidence suggests ...