A new study from the University at Buffalo examines this issue, with findings showing that one cigarette filter can release ...

With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

The study said that once inhaled, microplastics and nanoplastics can carry additives, absorbed chemicals, and pathogens into ...

Microplastics seem to be everywhere – in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in ...

Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural environments in greater quantities than in urban locations, researchers ...

Researchers observed that the plants grown with microplastics were 11 percent less likely to emerge from the soil, were smaller in size and were several days slower to produce flowers or ripen. The ...

Cuyahoga County raises awareness of microplastics in the Great Lakes, noting tap water contains fewer than bottled water.

STORY: This river in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state has one of the world’s highest concentrations of microplastic pollution, according to a new study. Its findings are raising concerns among scientists and ...

A new study from has overturned assumptions about airborne plastic pollution, finding that a rural woodland area recorded ...

CLEVELAND — In the waters of Lake Erie is a small, but abundant threat. Microplastics, plastic particles under 5 millimeters in size. A major source? Doing the laundry. "Really that was our mission ...

Here, there and everywhere: Due to its minuscule size and its ease of scattering, glitter is more harmful than other sorts of microplastics. Glitter (Credit: Nika Akin / CC0 Public Domain) I’ve been ...

The prevalence of cognitive, mobility, self-care, and independent living disability were significantly higher in coastal counties with very high vs low marine microplastic levels. Compared with ...