The fishing and aquaculture industries are major consumers of plastic. Feed hoses, nets and ropes all contain plastic – and even washing fish farming ...

Fiddler crabs in mangrove forests eat and degrade microplastics into nanoplastics, offering clues to the "missing plastic paradox." ...

Plastic bottles shed harmful microplastics, toxins, and chemicals, creating hidden health risks from everyday drinking habits ...

Microplastics (MPs), defined as plastic fragments with sizes ranging from millimeters (<5 mm) to nanometers, have become a growing environmental and public health concern. First identified in the ...

Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many of the claims have come ...

Microplastics have been linked to human health issues from low fertility to heart attacks. But some pioneers are fighting back.

Off the coasts of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea swirls an omnipresent yet vanishingly small menace: microplastics. By this point, it comes as no surprise to scientists that they would ...

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From tiny plankton to massive whales, microplastics have been found throughout the ocean food chain. One major source of this pollution are fibers shed while laundering synthetic fabrics. Although ...

Americans unknowingly consume thousands of microplastic particles annually. New research suggests dietary fiber might help ...