That “magic” sponge under your sink may be hiding an environmental downside. While melamine sponges are famous for ...

Beneath the surface of tidal flats and shallow bays, lugworms spend their lives swallowing sediment, digesting organic matter ...

Tiny seafloor creatures play a vital role in coastal ecosystems. New research suggests microplastics may now be interfering ...

Austin, Texas, has a growing microplastic problem in its soil and bodies of water. Danielle Zaleski, a student at the University of Texas' Jackson School of Geosciences, pulled a core sample from the ...

A joint effort from HHS and the EPA will examine how microplastics affect human health — and what it may take to reduce ...

Microplastics scientists are finding the tiny particles everywhere, even in their own research laboratories. So how do they ...

Plastic has become one of the defining materials of modern civilization, and it turns out that extends well beyond our ...

Timo Rissanen, a fashion and textiles researcher, and associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, said it is technically possible for the fashion industry to combat the ...

Microplastics — the tiny pieces of plastic that range from the size of a sesame seed to microscopic particles –are increasingly showing up in our oceans, air and on our dinner plates, and this has ...

Data from microplastic analyses can inform health recommendations and policy decisions. Machine learning is one tool researchers have started using. I am a machine learning researcher. With a team of ...

The first-of-its-kind report draws on more than 350 peer-reviewed studies to conclude human microplastic exposure is ‘continuous and global’ A new major report has revealed the vast scale of ...