Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The air inside your home and car may be quietly filling your lungs with thousands of plastic fragments every single day, according ...

It’s hard enough navigating all the decisions that come with feeding your family, without wondering if the packaging itself could be part of the problem. But that’s exactly what new research is asking ...

Sources and exposure pathways to micro nano plastic particles in terrestrial ecosystem agriculture. The accumulation and poor management of plastic fibers and particles remains a pressing global issue ...

Plastic contamination is rampant in bottled water. That was the unsettling conclusion of a study published last year in Frontiers in Chemistry that analyzed samples taken from 259 bottled waters sold ...

It's a disturbing thought: At this very moment, tiny crumbs of plastic are trickling through our bodies, a parade of unwelcome houseguests ready to take up residence in some tissue or organ. The ...

Every time you take a sip from that plastic bottle, you’re drinking somewhere between 2.6 and 11.5 million tiny plastic particles per liter. If you’re filling a glass from the tap instead, you’re ...

As a result, plastic pollution has emerged as a major and increasingly urgent global environmental challenge, they maintain. The study highlights that the presence of the bioaccumulation of micro- and ...