University of New Mexico Health Sciences Department researchers published an article in Nature Medicine in late February ...

New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously overlooked route for the particles to enter crops ...

Microplastics are in everything we use, but how are we exposed, and what harm do they cause to us? Eyewitness News spoke to an expert who explained the details.

Marine biologist Richard Thompson was out looking at barnacles in tide pools one morning in 1993 when he started noticing ...

Most plastics used today – roughly 75% – are made of semicrystalline polymers. These materials have a layered structure that ...

The findings explain how most common plastics shed nanoscopic pieces into the environment – not just when they’re burned or crushed, but slowly and quietly, just by sitting out in the open.

The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus—just the ...

For more than two years, the UN member states have been trying to agree on a plastics treaty that includes globally binding ...

At this point, what we know is that tiny fragments of plastics, smaller than 5 µm in size, make their way into parts of our ...

The threat that microplastics pose to human health and the environment has been studied in detail in recent years. But another type of tiny plastic particle, known as nanoplastics, are far more ...

We've seen these same ethical and moral challenges for executives in the tobacco industry, wine and spirits, hazardous ...

While the jury is still out, according to some scientists, on the extent of harm posed by microplastics, the negative impact on human health of some of the chemicals used to manufacture plastics ...