Microplastics are turning up in oceans, soil, drinking water, and human tissue. Learn where they come from, why they matter, ...

Switching from plastic to glass food containers is an easy step to cut down on your microplastic exposure. But just because we hear that microplastics are everywhere, it doesn’t mean we can’t—and ...

We hear it more often now. Those tiny particles that scientists can't stop talking about. They're in our water, in our air, probably even in our bloodstream right this second. Microplastics have ...

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Plastic is unavoidable in today's world. We wear clothes made of it, encase our food in it, and fill our homes with it. The benefits of the omnipresent material are clear: It's cheap to create, ...

The scientists re-upped calls for more research into how these plastics affect our health. New evidence suggests the number of tiny plastic particles in our brains and livers may accumulate over time, ...

Particularly alarming for service members are studies showing that microplastics were present in 99% of post-mortem lung ...

A recent University of Florida study found more than 1 trillion microplastics in Indian River Lagoon, raising health and environmental concerns.

To track the course of inhaled microplastics and their even smaller counterparts, nanoplastics, the study authors constructed a detailed computer model of the human respiratory system from the nose to ...

Scientists are working hard to understand the impact of microplastic pollution in the environment and in human bodies. The research requires identifying and analyzing types of microplastics particles, ...

Microplastics are everywhere and in everything, including humans – and that’s not a good thing. Microplastics are fragments of plastic less than 5 millimeters in size that usually require a microscope ...

Japanese researchers have developed a plant-based plastic packaging material that easily decomposes in water without leaving ...