Kitchen items—sponges, blenders, kettles—are abundant sources of microplastics that we all consume When Amy Lusher moved in ...

Microplastics are tiny plastic particles that have infiltrated our food chain, posing potential health risks. Here are 10 ...

More commonly known by a famous brand-name version of the product — Mr. Clean Magic Eraser — these sponges are beloved for ...

In terms of our major sources of exposure, he said that microplastics are like “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in that they ...

Purging our world of microplastics requires change at the government level. But until that happens, here are some things ...

In a startling discovery, a team of Boston University researchers found that bacteria exposed to microplastics became resistant to multiple types of antibiotics commonly used to treat infections.

A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces ...

They have made their way up food chains, accumulated in oceans, clustered in clouds and on mountains, and been found inside human bodies at alarming ...

A research group led by Prof. DANG Fei from the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in ...

“Stopping the practice of heating food in plastic could be one of the most effective ways to reduce microplastic consumption.” Microwaving food in plastic containers can release up to 4.22 ...

More recent studies have documented the presence of even smaller microplastic particles in ... with cascading effects up the food chain. The NOAA researchers found tiny blue strands of ...

On average, these little particles could reduce photosynthesis in plants and algae by up to 12 percent, according to the ...