Microplastics are no longer a distant threat. New scientific data reveals how these toxic fragments have spread from pristine ...

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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 ...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- More than 100 Traverse City middle school students are taking on the growing ...

Earlier this year, headlines screamed scary stats around just how much microplastic makes its way into the water we drink out of plastic bottles, and it’s a lot. (An average of 240,000 particles per ...

Experts in the fight against plastic pollution are meeting this week to develop an international network of high-tech laboratories that can monitor marine microplastics, and examine other progress ...

Twenty years ago, Richard Thompson, a marine biologist at the University of Plymouth, and his colleagues first used the term microplastic to describe the microscopic bits of plastic they were finding ...

Marine microplastic levels in ocean water were associated with cognitive and other disabilities among people living in adjacent coastal counties, cross-sectional data showed. Across 218 coastal ...

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 ...

You brush twice daily, floss religiously and see your dentist every six months. But what if these acts of oral hygiene are quietly contributing to one of the planet's most pressing environmental ...