We should not underestimate the prevalence of microplastics. They are everywhere—in our rivers, our lungs, and even in our ...

Tiny plastic particles aren’t just choking oceans and cities—they’re quietly infiltrating forests too. Scientists discovered ...

As the federal government takes new measures to address microplastics, a team at Florida Polytechnic University is finding ...

"Given the widespread presence of microplastics in the environment, completely eliminating exposure is unrealistic." ...

In A Nutshell Common lab gloves can leave behind residues that look like microplastics under standard tests. A single touch ...

Researchers found that plastic gloves can transfer microplastic particles onto environmental samples, potentially skewing ...

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each ...

Microplastics are everywhere, which makes studying them all the more difficult. Labs are doing all they can to be ...

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it would seek to remove microplastics and pharmaceuticals from drinking ...

Off the coasts of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea swirls an omnipresent yet vanishingly small menace: microplastics. By this point, it comes as no surprise to scientists that they would ...

"The average person now carries about a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastic in their brain. Not in our oceans or landfills — in our brains." ...