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 ...

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 ...

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

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s ...

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

A combination of sewage overflows and coastal winds could be sending billions of airborne microplastic particles into the ...

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

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

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

New research claims that tons of invisible nanoplastics are hiding in our oceans, raising even more concerns about plastic ...