Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

Microplastics - tiny shards of plastic debris - are all over the planet. They have made their way up food chains, accumulated in oceans, clustered in clouds and on mountains, and been found inside ...

Microplastics are pervasive contaminants linked to health risks. Learn strategies to reduce exposure and protect your ...

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 ...

As I started thinking about this piece in January, wildfires had begun ravaging Los Angeles. By the time I had written it, entire neighborhoods had been wiped off the map, from fires that were among ...

Microplastics are small pieces of plastic, typically under 5mm, which have come from the disintegration of large plastics or have been created to be sold for use (microbeads in cosmetics).

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