Over the past decade, San Juan County agencies and environmentalists have shifted public attention from reducing our use of biocides (pesticides, herbicides) to reducing our use of plastics, starting ...

Penn State researchers found that microplastic levels in freshwater have risen with global plastic production, though they ...

Penn State research links rising freshwater microplastics to the global increase in plastic production since the 1950s ...

Microplastics have been steadily increasing in rivers, and levels are directly tied to rising plastic production, a new study ...

Microplastics have been found throughout the human body – including inside lungs, blood, and brains – and while it is not yet clear how harmful they are to our health, some researchers are sounding ...

Microplastics have been steadily increasing in freshwater environments for decades and are directly tied to rising global ...

Studies link microplastics to various health issues, including heart attacks, strokes and cancer. Microplastics have been found throughout the human body – including inside lungs, blood and brains.

Numerous studies have linked the presence of microplastics -- or nanoplastics which are 1,000 times smaller -- to a range of ...

A research team has discovered an exciting use for biochar — commonly a processed farm waste — that could dramatically lower the amount of microplastics from farms ending up in our oceans ...

However, these two acts might be more deeply linked than you thought, as research has shown that as humans, we are starting to eat our clothes thanks to the micro-plastics that are released from them, ...

Around a third of all plastic pollution is microplastics – particles from 5mm down to microscopic levels – which are either made that size ... phase out of a range of ‘intentionally added ...