Scientists say we do not yet know enough about whether microplastics negatively affect human health. The concentration of plastics in the oceans has significantly increased from around 16 trillion ...

In an innovative effort to combat climate change, a Dartmouth-led study has proposed a method that employs trillions of microscopic zooplankton to accelerate the ocean’s natural carbon removal ...

or fragments - accumulate in human faeces. Scientists from the Environment Agency Austria and the Medical University of Vienna analysed the poop samples of eight participants from all over the ...