Dealing with the issue will take time. Scientists make unexpected discovery about health impacts of common recreation ...

Plastic is a daily part of modern life. Now, it’s also part of your body — and brain — according to researchers at the ...

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Department researchers published an article in Nature Medicine in late February ...

Water filters, HEPA vacuums, and natural fiber clothing are some of the tools you can use to reduce your exposure to ...

New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously overlooked route for the particles to enter crops ...

It’s clear that microplastics, particularly those found in water and food sources, may be playing a more significant role in ...

Most accounts of the history of chewing gum take us back a couple of millenia to the Mayans of Mesoamerica who tasted the sap of the sapodilla tree and discovered that it did not disintegrate in the ...

Microplastics have previously been detected throughout the human body including in the blood, saliva, liver, kidneys, lungs, ...

Between concerns about black plastic utensils being toxic and hazardous microplastics entering food from plastic cutting boards, it can be hard to know what’s safe to use in the kitchen anymore. A ...

Water filters made from untreated wood can remove more than 99 per cent of particles, taking out many harmful bacteria and ...

Researchers at WellnessPulse have determined roughly how much plastic people have ingested by the time they reach each decade ...

New research is finding that microplastics can hamper plant growth, which could have devastating impacts on our food supply.