Tiny fragments of microplastics—from clothes, car tires, packaging, and other sources—slip through most water filters. But at a water treatment plant on the coast in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where ...

Plastic and microplastic pollution has become a defining environmental concern of our time; headlines warn that these invisible particles might be infiltrating our food and drink. But how much of this ...

Every egg case examined contained plastic particles, raising urgent questions about how pollution may be affecting sharks ...

Close up of microplastic fibers found in northern hogsucker fish. A study published by West Virginia University in the journal Sustainability found microplastics in every fish tested across seven ...

Data collected during a rowing challenge around the seas of Great Britain has found significantly higher concentrations of microplastic pollution than previously recorded, a new report finds. The team ...

It's no secret that microplastics have already infiltrated our lives, and nowhere is this more present than in our own homes. Microplastics - and even tinier nanoplastics - stem from daily tasks like ...

Microplastic pollution has escalated at a pace that has outstripped early scientific expectations, largely because researchers underestimated how many pathways plastics take as they fragment and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: This river in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state has one of the world’s highest concentrations of microplastic pollution, according ...

Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The team representing Hillcrest High. (Left to Right) Swayam Sanghvi, Shreya Sanghvi, Om Sanghvi, Kevin Siju Eappen, Samhith ...

Here, there and everywhere: Due to its minuscule size and its ease of scattering, glitter is more harmful than other sorts of microplastics. Glitter (Credit: Nika Akin / CC0 Public Domain) I’ve been ...