Researchers have found evidence of microplastics in the olfactory bulbs of the human brain for the first time, after ...

But one tiny organism, notorious for its ability to return to life after a trip to space, being frozen or boiled, asphyxiated ...

Microplastics have made their way into nearly every environment on Earth and have been detected inside thousands of animals ...

Twenty years ago, a team of U.K. scientists sounded the alarm on a then-underappreciated problem: the breakdown of plastic ...

As it stands, though, individuals are left to mediate their own relationship to plastic, in a world where plastic is the ...

In the citizen science project "Microplastic Detectives," researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with ...

A new study identified the tiny pollutants in the olfactory bulbs of eight cadavers, suggesting microplastics can travel ...

Billions of nurdles – pellets of pure plastic – continually wash up on Gulf Coast shores, including Sylvan Beach, where we ...

Researchers from Japan and Thailand investigating microplastics in coral have found that all three parts of the coral anatomy ...

The paper opened an entire research field. Since then, more than 7,000 published studies have shown the prevalence of ...

Microplastics are everywhere, but much remains unknown about their long-term effects on human health and ecosystems. Urgent ...

It’s been 20 years since a paper in the journal Science showed the environmental accumulation of tiny plastic fragments and ...