Microplastics are a growing concern globally. These tiny pieces of plastic are found in the sea, land, and air. According to the World Economic Forum, they’ve also been detected in the human body.

Rice is also a hot spot for microplastics. A University of Queensland study found that for every half cup of rice, there are ...

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Researchers have been examining the possibility that wind could be spreading microplastics and nanoplastics (MNP) from sewage ...

By Max Martin As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of ...

For this research, Utrecht master student Sophie ten Hietbrink worked for four weeks aboard the research vessel RV Pelagia. On a trip from the Azores to the continental shelf of Europe, she took water ...

Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

This estimate shows that there is more plastic in the form of nanoparticles floating in the this part of the ocean, than there is in larger micro- or ...

Microplastics (MPs) pollution is a prevalent environmental problem that affects ecosystems globally. Despite the growing ...