Dutch environmental authorities are investigating the widespread mismanagement of soil contaminated with microplastics from ...

Despite freshwater’s critical role in the global economy, 80% of the world’s untreated wastewater is released into rivers, ...

Microplastics are everywhere: our soil, food and waterways. And it can take hundreds of years for them to completely degrade.

Environmental advocacy group the Plastic Pollution Coalition has filed a lawsuit against popular water company Fiji and its ...

People diagnosed with dementia have up to 10 times more microplastics present in their brains than those without the ...

International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Science Advisory Board says lakes Ontario and Michigan show greater ...

Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching ...

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The sheer scale of Earth's plastic problem has been laid bare in a new study, led by researchers from the British Antarctic ...

Nearly every sample of seafood in Oregon contains microscopic, cancer-causing plastics, a new study from Portland State ...

Fish also suffer harmful effects from eating microplastics. Microplastics can damage their intestines, gills, and brain among ...