Microplastics have long been understood to be a global contaminant, but their impact on black soil has remained largely ...

Microplastics was a term that didn’t even exist before 2004, when Professor Richard Thompson coined it. Thompson and his team ...

House Bill 348 would ban small single-use plastic bottles in hotels, motels, and bed and breakfasts — essentially any place ...

To a layperson, it’s footage of adorable polar bear cubs with their moms against the backdrop of endless Arctic snow. For researchers who study the animals, however, it’s a rare and incredibly ...

Microplastics appear to be present in filtered solutions used for medical intravenous infusions, with about 7,500 particles/L found in infusion solutions from polypropylene (PP) bottles filtered to ...

New research reveals that PET-based glitter microplastics can actively influence biomineralization processes in marine ...

New study finds chewing gum releases up to 637 microplastic particles in just minutes, with 94% released in the first 8 ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics have been identified in the lungs of wild birds using laser direct infrared (LDIR) chemical imaging and pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (Py-GC–MS), in the ...

Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

University of Manchester scientists have discovered significant concentrations of microplastics in the male reproductive ...

And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...