Plastic pollution is seeping into the Earth, into wildlife, and into our bodies, and a new research review suggests tiny ...

From your tires to your laundry, everyday habits may be fueling a growing plastic problem. Now, a new lab in Oregon is taking ...

Plastic particles smaller than a grain of sand have now been found in human lungs, blood, arterial plaque, and placentas, ...

Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from ...

Microplastics (MPs), defined as plastic fragments with sizes ranging from millimeters (<5 mm) to nanometers, have become a growing environmental and public health concern. First identified in the ...

A growing body of laboratory research suggests that nanoplastics, the near-invisible fragments shed by everyday plastic products, may worsen the biological processes behind Parkinson’s disease.

The world’s reliance on plastic has many unseen consequences on human health, enabling fragments of micro- and nano-plastics — and the chemicals that they’re composed of — to proliferate throughout ...

Chinese researchers who developed a new method to measure airborne microplastic pollution found more than they expected. The researchers captured, verified and measured particles as small as 200 ...