That’s not to say the proliferation of tiny plastic particles isn’t a serious problem. A review paper published last month lists ways microplastic particles might damage your brain and increase the ...

Marketing has positioned bottled water as purer and healthier, but the scientific evidence tells a different story ...

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

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

Close observers will note that journalists in the legacy press have a perplexing habit of engaging in outright activism for ...

Like the editor-loved Pure Over pour-over system, the body of the brand’s French press is made entirely of glass so it’s ...

The study found that while nylon may be the most convenient material operationally, it yields the highest release of ...

“Microplastics are a foreign object in your body,” said Judith Enck, a former regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency who co-wrote a new book, The Problem with Plastic. “You’re ...

Even one percent plastic in a sample can distort ocean carbon numbers, making young carbon read as ancient and affecting ...

Island in the the South Shetlands Archipelago, Konyukhov will conduct a series of scientific studies and experiments to determine the level of air pollution and the amount of microplastics in the coas ...

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

New research tallies the hidden health, environmental and economic impacts of litter — and why upstream fixes matter.