When most people think about sharks and plastic pollution, they picture entanglement or stomachs full of debris. And that happens, true! But what if the problem starts even earlie ...

Plastic pollution remains one of the world’s most challenging environmental problems. Plastic pollution has been found ...

Looking to decrease your consumption of microplastics? You should know that these foods and drinks have all been found to include more than their fair share.

One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Amy Goldstein Photography In January Phoebe Stapleton, ...

People may be at increased risk from cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic lung disease—as rising global levels of micro- and nanoplastics (MnPs) are absorbed into the human body, a ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Rutgers University found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water. The study was published Monday in the Proceedings of ...

Scientists studying how tiny particles of plastic affect our everyday lives say that the amount of nanoplastics found in bottled water is between 10 to 100 times higher than researchers had previously ...

The average one-liter plastic bottle of water contains levels of “nanoplastics” that are 100 times higher than previously thought, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, the first to test ...

DAVIS, Calif. — We’re all inadvertently dining on tens of thousands of plastic particles annually. Now, researchers have figured out what all that plastic might be doing inside your body. A new study ...

Microscopic plastic particles found in most food and drinking water can pass from pregnant rats to their unborn babies, a new study suggests, and the outlook is grim for pregnant women. “Much remains ...

A new study used a pioneering technique to deliver endocrine-disrupting aerosolized micro-nano-plastics to female lab rats. Amid rising evidence that additives designed to improve plastics also ...