Plastic pollution occurs in every ecosystem on the planet and lingers for decades. Could insects be part of the solution? Previous research found that insects can ingest and absorb pure, unrefined ...

A new Tel Aviv University study has uncovered alarming findings about the spread of microplastic particles in the marine food web. In recent years, numerous studies have examined the dangers of marine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Microplastics are invisible but omnipresent. Musat/iStock via Getty Images Plus Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and ...

Microplastics have become an alarming environmental concern, infiltrating ecosystems and even human bodies. Defined as plastic particles smaller than five millimetres, these tiny pollutants are found ...

A study published in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Review has assessed the presence of microplastics in drinking water sources in Southern India. The work provides new evidence of the spread of ...

Microplastics — the tiny pieces of plastic that range from the size of a sesame seed to microscopic particles –are increasingly showing up in our oceans, air and on our dinner plates, and this has ...

Marine microplastic levels in ocean water were associated with cognitive and other disabilities among people living in adjacent coastal counties, cross-sectional data showed. Across 218 coastal ...

Twenty years ago, Richard Thompson, a marine biologist at the University of Plymouth, and his colleagues first used the term microplastic to describe the microscopic bits of plastic they were finding ...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- More than 100 Traverse City middle school students are taking on the growing problem of microplastics in the Great Lakes through a hands-on science project ...

Plastic pollution occurs in every ecosystem on the planet and lingers for decades. Could insects be part of the solution? Previous research found that insects can ingest and absorb pure, unrefined ...