While talks on an international plastics treaty remain deadlocked, California is starting a process that could lead to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Austin, Texas, has a growing microplastic problem in its soil and bodies of water. Danielle Zaleski, a student at the University ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researcher holding small pieces of micro plastic pollution washed up on a beach. (File/Alistair Berg/Getty Images) Bottlenose ...

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 ...

Halting new marine plastic inputs by 2050 is the core objective of the Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, which was shared and endorsed ...

While the human body can naturally clear some microplastic particles, there is no clinically validated method for ...

Microplastics can now be found just about everywhere in the environment, including — most alarming — in our own bodies. But this tsunami of tiny plastic pieces doesn’t just originate from discarded ...

Beneath the sea of plastic greenhouses that blankets Almería in southern Spain, the soil is quietly accumulating something ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...