"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." From ocean shores to grocery stores, plastic is all around us. Scientists are even finding microplastics, ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are now found everywhere on Earth, from ocean depths to agricultural soils and even inside the human body. Yet scientists still struggle to understand what these ...

Microplastics have also been found in drinking water, salt, rice, honey and powdered supplements. They leach from teabags and ...

Plastic pollution has moved from oceans and beaches into the most intimate corners of the human body. Tiny fragments of plastic are now being detected inside the arteries that feed the heart and brain ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – We often hear the word microplastics thrown out, but what exactly are they? Microplastics and ...

Plastic pollution is no longer an issue affecting only oceans, soil, or the air. A recent scientific study found ...

Researchers seek to overcome measurement issues arising from field's youth, while some criticism has turned into harassment ...

Scientists found microplastics in all examined human brains in a recent study, with highest levels discovered in dementia ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) –Microplastics are everywhere, in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and even the linens we use to sleep. Researchers are raising concerns about the effects of these plastics ...

Every day, humans unknowingly consume the equivalent of a credit card’s worth of plastic particles, accumulating to approximately 50 plastic bags worth of microplastics annually. These microscopic ...

From ocean shores to grocery stores, plastic is all around us. Scientists are even finding microplastics, which are small bits of plastic under five millimeters long, in over half of human organ ...