Far from the beaches and busy coastlines where plastic pollution is easiest to see, scientists found evidence of a much less ...

While the human body can naturally clear some microplastic particles, there is no clinically validated method for ...

Plastic pollution occurs in every ecosystem on the planet and lingers for decades. Could insects be part of the solution? Previous research found that insects can ingest and absorb pure, unrefined ...

Beneath the sea of plastic greenhouses that blankets Almería in southern Spain, the soil is quietly accumulating something ...

Microplastics — the tiny pieces of plastic that range from the size of a sesame seed to microscopic particles –are increasingly showing up in our oceans, air and on our dinner plates, and this has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Austin, Texas, has a growing microplastic problem in its soil and bodies of water. Danielle Zaleski, a student at the University ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researcher holding small pieces of micro plastic pollution washed up on a beach. (File/Alistair Berg/Getty Images) Bottlenose ...

Every oyster farm in South Korea’s southern coastal waters floats on a quiet environmental disaster. Roughly 24 million ...

A new Tel Aviv University study has uncovered alarming findings about the spread of microplastic particles in the marine food web. In recent years, numerous studies have examined the dangers of marine ...

Studies show that heat and UV exposure cause plastic bottles to shed billions of microscopic fragments, which end up in your ...

Microplastics can now be found just about everywhere in the environment, including — most alarming — in our own bodies. But this tsunami of tiny plastic pieces doesn’t just originate from discarded ...