Scientists have found evidence that humans also drink, eat, and inhale tens of thousands of microplastics each year, and a study published today (October 19) in Nature Food estimates that babies may ...

New research reveals a startling link between microplastic pollution and premature births, highlighting the need for urgent ...

More recent studies have documented the presence of even smaller microplastic particles in a ... Predators converge on slicks too. If a baby fish manages to avoid being eaten and to find enough ...

A groundbreaking study has uncovered a startling link between microplastic pollution and premature births, sparking fresh ...

The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday in the ...

VANCOUVER - When food safety researcher Tianxi Yang became a mother, she wondered how much microplastic her son would ingest when drinking milk out of widely available plastic containers.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Marine animals ingest microplastic particles, which are then excreted in feces, making them unrecognizable as plastic and potentially mistaken for organic matter ...