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 ...

Researchers in the United Arab Emirates are urging tighter rules on plastic bottle caps after a new study found that the country’s heat and sunlight can quickly make discarded tops brittle, increasing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Microplastics are invisible but omnipresent. Musat/iStock via Getty Images Plus Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and ...

A study published in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Review has assessed the presence of microplastics in drinking water sources in Southern India. The work provides new evidence of the spread of ...

Microplastics — the tiny pieces of plastic that range from the size of a sesame seed to microscopic particles –are increasingly showing up in our oceans, air and on our dinner plates, and this has ...

The microplastic problem has reached our pets’ food bowl. A new study of pet and wildlife foods sold in Britain found microplastics in most of the brands tested, including foods for cats, dogs, and ...

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 ...

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 ...