Microplastics are everywhere, even in our brains but experts explain how we can limit our exposure to these insidious ...

The microplastics that pollute the environment and increasingly find their way into humans and animals can help bacteria ...

Microplastics provide an excellent bacterial breeding ground that may be contributing to the growing problem of ...

Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows microplastics are ...

Microplastics don’t just carry bacteria — they actively help them develop drug resistance. Researchers found that within days ...

Microplastics have been found in human blood, semen, breast milk, placental tissue and bone marrow, but their presence in the ...

Microplastics are everywhere — in the beauty products we wear, the cleaning supplies we use and even in the food we eat.

A new study from researchers at Boston University found microplastics may play a role in the spread of drug-resistant ...

While the investigators found microplastics in various organs, the microplastics were usually detected at higher levels in ...

Birds are breathing in high levels of airborne microplastics into their lungs—and, likely, so are we, with unclear effects on ...

Compost applied to agricultural soils in Australia each year contains tonnes of microplastics, our research has revealed.

Microplastics have been found almost everywhere that scientists have looked for them. Now, according to research published in ...